During the civil war they had a term being: mustered out. Does anyone know for sure what this term means?

Question

I'm thinking that this is some kind of pension they got upon their discharge from the service. Is this right?

Answer 1

When people are ordered to fall out for muster, they must line up, and be accounted for. When they are being mustered out they must line up, and then are being discharged! There is no type of pension involved unless that particuler person has served long enough for a pension, and/or is getting a medical pension. or some other typr of pension.
A pension is not a requirement to muster out.
To make it simple, it is the act of getting discharged from one of the United States services!!

Answer 2

RE:
During the civil war they had a term being: mustered out. Does anyone know for sure what this term means?
I'm thinking that this is some kind of pension they got upon their discharge from the service. Is this right?

Answer 3

It meant you were officially released from military service. A "muster" was a roll-call, so to "muster out" meant that specific people were dishcharged.

All veterans, North and South, were given pensions either by their states (South) or by the Federal government (North). If you were listed on the muster as a deserter, however, you might not get a pension.

The pension was different from the muster. The muster was just a record of who was expected to be in the military service. The pension was a payment.

Answer 4

Mustered

Answer 5

Soldiers could be mustered "in" or mustered "out". I think that it means enlisting or leaving the service. The term is still used today.

Answer 6

I have 2 diaries from relatives that mustered out. They wrote it took them over 2 weeks to get home because they had no money for food. If there was money given, it was not much.

Answer 7

The term mustard out means a type of gas they would use to clear out of a building. The gas came in a can with a small opening which let the gas out over a long period of time. The soldiers the this mustered out because you could not go into a building where one of these have been set off.

Answer 8

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1. Economic and social differences between the North and the South. With Eli Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin in 1793, cotton became very profitable. This machine was able to reduce the time it took to separate seeds from the cotton. However, at the same time the increase in the number of plantations willing to move from other crops to cotton meant the greater need for a large amount of cheap labor, i.e. slaves. Thus, the southern economy became a one crop economy, depending on cotton and therefore on slavery. On the other hand, the northern economy was based more on industry than agriculture. In fact, the northern industries were purchasing the raw cotton and turning it into finished goods. This disparity between the two set up a major difference in economic attitudes. The South was based on the plantation system while the North was focused on city life. This change in the North meant that society evolved as people of different cultures and classes had to work together. On the other hand, the South continued to hold onto an antiquated social order. 2. States versus federal rights. Since the time of the Revolution, two camps emerged: those arguing for greater states rights and those arguing that the federal government needed to have more control. The first organized government in the US after the American Revolution was under the Articles of Confederation. The thirteen states formed a loose confederation with a very weak federal government. However, when problems arose, the weakness of this form of government caused the leaders of the time to come together at the Constitutional Convention and create, in secret, the US Constitution. Strong proponents of states rights like Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry were not present at this meeting. Many felt that the new constitution ignored the rights of states to continue to act independently. They felt that the states should still have the right to decide if they were willing to accept certain federal acts. This resulted in the idea of nullification, whereby the states would have the right to rule federal acts unconstitutional. The federal government denied states this right. However, proponents such as John C. Calhoun fought vehemently for nullification. When nullification would not work and states felt that they were no longer respected, they moved towards secession. 3. The fight between Slave and Non-Slave State Proponents. As America began to expand, first with the lands gained from the Louisiana Purchase and later with the Mexican War, the question of whether new states admitted to the union would be slave or free. The Missouri Compromise passed in 1820 made a rule that prohibited slavery in states from the former Louisiana Purchase the latitude 36 degrees 30 minutes north except in Missouri. During the Mexican War, conflict started about what would happen with the new territories that the US expected to gain upon victory. David Wilmot proposed the Wilmot Proviso in 1846 which would ban slavery in the new lands. However, this was shot down to much debate. The Compromise of 1850 was created by Henry Clay and others to deal with the balance between slave and free states, northern and southern interests. One of the provisions was the fugitive slave act that was discussed in number one above. Another issue that further increased tensions was the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. It created two new territories that would allow the states to use popular sovereignty to determine whether they would be free or slave. The real issue occurred in Kansas where proslavery Missourians began to pour into the state to help force it to be slave. They were called “Border Ruffians.” Problems came to a head in violence at Lawrence Kansas. The fighting that occurred caused it to be called “Bleeding Kansas.” The fight even erupted on the floor of the senate when antislavery proponent Charles Sumner was beat over the head by South Carolina’s Senator Preston Brooks. 4. Growth of the Abolition Movement. Increasingly, the northerners became more polarized against slavery. Sympathies began to grow for abolitionists and against slavery and slaveholders. This occurred especially after some major events including: the publishing of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the Dred Scott Case, John Brown’s Raid, and the passage of the fugitive slave act that held individuals responsible for harboring fugitive slaves even if they were located in non-slave states 5. The election of Abraham Lincoln. Even though things were already coming to a head, when Lincoln was elected in 1860, South Carolina issued its “Declaration of the Causes of Secession.” They believed that Lincoln was anti-slavery and in favor of Northern interests. Before Lincoln was even president, seven states had seceded from the Union: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas.

Answer 9

This is the definition of muster...I hope it helps....

Verb
Infinitive
to muster
Third person singular
musters
Simple past
mustered
Past participle
mustered
Present participle
mustering


to muster (third-person singular simple present musters, present participle mustering, simple past mustered, past participle mustered)

(transitive) To collect and display; to assemble.
(transitive) To summon together; to enroll in service; to get together.
(intransitive) To be gathered together for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like; to come together as parts of a force or body.

Answer 10

muster out:
to discharge or be discharged from military service, e.g. he was mustered out when the war ended.