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Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Militia muster rolls for the years 1847-1897, preceding the establishment of the National Guard, have had a complicated history. Most of those concerning the period from the suppression of the Taos Revolt in 1847 through the Civil War and Navajo campaign of 1864-65, together with discharge papers and other supporting military records, were not in the custody of the Adjutant-General until the 1890's when they were recovered from various merchants and other interested persons who had acquired...