Enlistment

This is Milon's first series of Muster Roll Cards. On August 29th of 1862, Milon Robinson enlisted in the Union Army for a three year term. He was 21 years old at the time. Shortly before the end of his third year, Milon would be taken captive and wounded. This wound would prove to debilitate him for life.

New York's enlistment numbers overshadowed all other states following July 2nd's call for troops. New York provided many of the enlisted for the north as well as the harshest casualties. Statisical data based on Phisterer's Statistical Record of the Armies of the United States.

Benjamin Gould produced a tome of Civil War statistics named Investigations in the Military and Anthropological Statistics of American Soldiers. While men into their late 40s enlisted, the armies were overwhelminglt made up of younger men. At 21 years of age, Milon was at the second most common bracket for enlistment.