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muster roll

noun

  1. a list of the officers and men in a regiment, ship's company, etc
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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I even repointed a couple of quills in the field — a first, and necessary when the “recruiting” includes handing them over to a motley assortment of harried parents, urchins and random passersby to sign the muster roll.

Then came a breakthrough: he found the two on an 1864 Civil War Registration Muster Roll and learned that one of them later filed for a Union Army pension.

One of Feyock’s relatives, Edward Stork, was on the Union’s June 30, 1863, muster roll.

She sent him electronic copies of those items and he sent her copies of Smith’s widow’s pension claim and muster roll.

If a battle is never to be considered equal, until both ships have the same tonnage to a pound, the same number of cannon, and the muster roll be equal to a man, it is to be feared there never will be one fought.

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