Looking for military records of Andres Gallegos

Paula,

Here is some information, assuming this is your GG based on the limited information given. Hope this is him. There were a few different individuals hope you can recognize. If you can provide more details it might give me a better response. DOB, place of birth, and any information that could be helpful.

New Mexico Commission of Public Records, State Records Center and Archives; Santa Fe, New Mexico; Series Title: Draft Inductees; Series Number: 18.1.4; Box Number: 10890; Collection Name: New Mexico Adjutant General Records; Collection Number: 1973-019

Dear Ms. Lucero,

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We suggest that you request a copy of his Official Military Personnel File (OMPF). OMPFs and individual medical reports for enlisted men of the U.S. Army who were separated from the service after October 1912 and before 1960 are in the custody of NARA's National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) in St. Louis. In many cases where personnel records were destroyed in the 1973 fire, proof of service can be provided from other records such as morning reports, payrolls, and military orders, and a certificate of military service will be issued. Please complete a GSA Standard Form 180 and mail it to NARA's National Personnel Records Center, (Military Personnel Records), 1 Archives Drive, St. Louis, MO  63138-1002. If there is any information requested by the form that you do not know, you may omit it or provide estimates (such as for dates), but the more information you provide, the easier it will be to locate the correct file if it survived the fire. For more information see Official Military Personnel Files (OMPF), Archival Records Requests.

We searched the National Archives Catalog and located Serial List of Mexican Border Service Medals Issued, 1919 - 1925 and Serial List of Mexican Service Medals Issued, 1918 - 1925 in the Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General (Record Group 92). We also located World War I Organization Records Pertaining to the National Guard, ca. 1914 - ca. 1919 in the Records of the Adjutant General's Office (Record Group 407) and the Records of Field Artillery Regiments Numbers 1 through 351, 1912 - 1930; Records of Cavalry Regiments, 1916 - 1937; Records of Engineer Regiments and Battalions, 1912 - 1921; and Records of the 1st Through 338th and the 559th Infantry Regiment, 1/1/1916 - 12/31/1921 in the Records of U.S. Regular Army Mobile Units (Record Group 391) that includes records of units that participated in the expedition. Please note that unit records are not indexed by names of soldiers that were members, therefore you would need to first identify which unit he served in before you can request his unit records.

We also located Morning Reports, ca. 1912 - 1946; National Guard Papers, 1916 - 1919; U. S. Army Files of the Mexican Border Service, 1916 - 1917 and Muster Rolls and Rosters, 11/1/1912 - 12/31/1943 in the Records of the National Archives and Records Administration (Record Group 64). Please note that Morning Reports, National Guard Papers, and Border Service records are not available online.  The muster rolls for this period are partially available online, however the use of abbreviations and the way the records are arranged may make it difficult to locate muster rolls of individual units.  These records are not indexed or searchable by name, therefore without already knowing the unit he served in, it would be difficult to find records about him. For more information about the non-digitized records as well as assistance with using the digitized records, please contact the National Archives at St. Louis (RL-SL) at stl.archives@nara.gov.

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The Prologue articles The United States Armed Forces and the Mexican Punitive Expedition: Part 1 and The United States Armed Forces and the Mexican Punitive Expedition: Part 2 discuss the expedition and some of the NARA records related to the expedition.

Finally, we suggest that you contact the state adjutant general and the state archives of the state in which he was living at the time to inquire about National Guard records.

We hope this is helpful. Best of luck with your family research!