{"id":24749,"date":"2025-03-25T08:24:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T13:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=24749"},"modified":"2025-03-26T08:37:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T13:37:25","slug":"enlistment-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/enlistment-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Enlistment State?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Your relative who served in the United States military may have enlisted in a state other than the one in which he lived. This was common for wars through the 19th century. Do not assume that your Ohio ancestor\u00a0<em>had<\/em>\u00a0to enlist in an Ohio unit. He may not have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have several Illinois relatives who served in the US Civil War. Most of them enlisted in units from Illinois, but not all. One enlisted in an Iowa unit and another enlisted in a Missouri unit. And an Iowa relative enlisted in a unit from Wisconsin. This was sometimes done to help those state meet quotas in terms of volunteers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/trautvetter-george-card.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"260\" height=\"471\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/trautvetter-george-card.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12926\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/trautvetter-george-card.jpg 260w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/trautvetter-george-card-166x300.jpg 166w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your relative who served in the United States military may have enlisted in a state other than the one in which he lived. This was common for wars through the 19th century. Do not assume that your Ohio ancestor\u00a0had\u00a0to enlist in an Ohio unit. He may not have. I have several Illinois relatives who served [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}