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Police Reserve Regiment was also mustered into state service and designated the 3rd Regiment
Infantry, National Guard of Missouri. On June 27, 1884, the 1st and 3rd Regiments consolidated
to form a reorganized 1st Regiment of the Missouri National Guard. The original Company A
retained its designation, while the Lafayette Guard became Company I. The unit underwent a
hiatus in 1887 owing to the failure of the legislature to provide for its support. It reorganized
again that year, first as a battalion, and then again as a regiment. With the Spanish-American
War, the 1st Regiment mustered into federal service as the 1st Regiment of Infantry, Missouri
Volunteers, on May 12, 1898. The unit never saw combat and was mustered out on October 31,
1878, whereupon it reverted to state service as the 1st Regiment Infantry, National Guard of
Missouri. When President Wilson ordered the National Guard mobilized for duty on the Mexican
border, on June 18, 1916, the 1st Regiment again entered federal service on June 25 and departed
for duty at Laredo, Texas. The unit was released from this service on September 25, 1916, and
returned to St. Louis. With the American entry into World War I in 1917 the 1st Regiment was
again inducted into federal service on August 5, 1917, joining other Missouri and Kansas units to
form the 35th Division. At that time, the 1st Regiment Infantry consolidated with the 5th
Infantry, Missouri National Guard, organized in St. Louis in the summer of 1917 to form the
138th Infantry on October 1, 1917. This combined unit arrive in France in May 1918, as part of
the American Expeditionary Force, and served out the remainder of the war in Europe.
Following World War I, the 1st Regiment Infantry was permanently redesignated the 138th
Infantry, National Guard of Missouri, in honor of the unit's World War I experiences.
These records consist mostly of the regimental records of the 1st Regiment Infantry, National
Guard of Missouri, from 1873 to 1910. They also include records of Company A and of the
Lafayette Guards, that trace the development of the units from their days as independent bodies
through their emergence as Companies A and I of the 1st Regiment Infantry. These records
consist of constitutions and by-laws, minutes of both civil and military associations, order books,
rosters and enlistment contracts, correspondence and account books.
Cite as: National Guard of Missouri, 1st Regiment Infantry (St. Louis) Records, Missouri History
Museum Archives, St. Louis.
National University of Arts and Sciences (Saint Louis, Missouri) Dental Department.
See Fruth Family Papers.
A0749
Native Americans collection, 1694-circa 1978. 3 boxes
Formerly known as the Indians Collection, the collection includes correspondence,
newsclippings, and other papers relating to the fur trade, life of the Indians, Indian missions, and
conflicts and migrations. Includes information about Indian agencies and agents, such as William
Clark, who was in charge of the St. Louis Indian Superintendency from 1822 to 1838. Agents
represented include Charles B. Babcock, Thomas Fitzpatrick, John Haverty, Pierre Menard, and
Benjamin O'Fallon. Tribes represented include the Cherokee, Cheyenne, Choctaw, Creek,
Delaware, Flathead, Fox, Iatan, Illinois, Iowa, Kickapoo, Michigan, Muskogee, Omaha, Osage,
Oto, Pawnee, Peoria, Ponca, Potawatomi, Sauk, Shawnee, Ute, and Winnebago. The collection
includes many photostats, including photostats of correspondence from the United States
Department of Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, 1827-1831.
Some French and Spanish.
Indexed in the archives card catalog.
Finding aid available.
Cite as: Indians Collection, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.