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Prior to the end of the Civil War, colonial and state governments played a much bigger role in forming, training, and maintaining military units than the federal government. Army and naval officers performed marriages then, just as officers of all branches of the military are authorized to do today. |
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Marriages performed by military personnel have been recorded in their private journals, ships' logs, and daybooks. These types of records can be found among the miscellaneous military records in the custody of the National Archives. See the Guide to Genealogical Research in the National Archives (Washington, D.C.: National Archives Trust Fund Board, 1982), for detailed information about the contents of its military record collection. |
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