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− | ==Citation== | + | ==Transcription== |
− | Ancestry.com. 1864 Census for Re-Organizing the Georgia Militia [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2012. This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors.
| + | <pre> |
− | Original data: Cornell, Nancy J. 1864 Census for Re-Organizing the Georgia Militia. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2000.
| + | more adjoining company districts, into one, reporting the consolidation made, and the numbers |
| + | of the company district so combined, and in cities to divide districts. |
| + | SECTION XIX. Be it further enacted, that in making the enrollment provided for by this act, the |
| + | enrolling officers shall report by name all persons having efficient guns, describing the gun, |
| + | whether rifle, musket, or shot-gun, and those who have not; also such persons who can furnish their |
| + | own horses, saddles and bridles, and serve as mounted men. |
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− | ==Introduction (cont)==
| + | SECTION XXIV. And be it further enacted, that no person shall be enrolled under this Act who is |
− | Many of the men on these lists enlisted in Confederate service or served for six months in a state unit after these lists were taken. Original records of Georgia's state units are stored in the Georgia Department of Archives & History, and the microfilms of Confederate and state service records are available for researchers at that facility. | + | subject to conscription under the Conscript Act or Acts of the Confederate Congress. The |
| + | enrollment lists are filed alphabetically by county. No lists were found for the counties of Burke, |
| + | Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Dooly, Emanuel, Irwin, Johnson, Montgomery, Pulaski or Wilcox. |
| + | Within the counties the lists are arranged by Georgia Militia Districts in numerical order. In cases |
| + | in which two or more districts have been combined on one sheet (to form a single militia company) |
| + | it is arranged in numerical order by the first-named district. In many instances two copies of each |
| + | list are included. |
| + | |
| + | Also included within each county are typed copies of the enrollment lists which were prepared |
| + | by the Georgia Pension and Record Department between 1920 and 1940. In preparing these typed |
| + | lists the staff of the Department often altered the spelling of names to a more conventional form, |
| + | assuming that the enrolling officer had misspelled them. "Asque" and "Ballue", for instance, have |
| + | been changed to 'Askew" and "Bailee. Names on the typed lists, unlike most of the originals, are |
| + | in alphabetical order." |
| + | |
| + | The lists as offered in this book were first abstracted from the typed lists prepared by the |
| + | Georgia Pension and Record Department. They were then checked against the handwritten original |
| + | lists for additional genealogical information and reasons for exemptions. |
| + | |
| + | In searching for specific persons, please note the various spellings of names. The enrolling |
| + | officer often spelled a name the way it sounded rather than the way a person actually spelled his |
| + | name. For example, "Cochran" might be "Cockran", and, a name that should be spelled with a |
| + | double "r", "s" or "t", may only have a single letter. In some cases, the handwriting or quality of |
| + | the microfilm was difficult to decipher and I may have abstracted it incorrectly. |
| + | |
| + | Many of the men on these lists enlisted in Confederate service or served for six months in a |
| + | state unit after these lists were taken. Original records of Georgia's state units are stored in the |
| + | Georgia Department of Archives & History, and the microfilms of Confederate and state service |
| + | records are available for researchers at that facility. |
| + | |
| + | In closing my remarks about this book, I would like to thank the staff of the Georgia |
| + | Department of Archives & History for preserving these records and making them available to |
| + | researchers. I would also like to thank my husband for his patience through the months it took to |
| + | abstract and prepare the manuscript; and, last but not least, I thank my parents for instilling in me |
| + | a love of history which guided me in the right direction. |
| + | |
| + | - Nancy J. Cornell |
| + | </pre> |
| + | |
| + | {{Citation section/with master |
| + | |master=1864 Census for Re-Organizing the Georgia Militia |
| + | |date=1864 |
| + | }} |
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