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Citation

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. Original data: Cornell, Nancy J. 1864 Census for Re-Organizing the Georgia Militia. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2000.

Transcription

The following lists were abstractedfrom microfil located at the Georgia Department of Archives & History in Atlanta, Georgia. THe re-organizaitonof the militia in the state of Georgia was vitally important for the protection of women, children and invalids living at home during the war years. Govener Joseph Brown had insisted that the state needed protection and had continually attempted to provide state troops wich were, as soon as the were formed, taken inot the Confederate Army. Since there was no homefront protection, Goveror Brown and the Georgia Legislature issued an order for statewide census wich would enable a re-organbization of the state militia.

the beggining of the moicrofilm offers the following explanation and description of the lists:

State of Georgia office adjutant and inspecotr general --- List of men enroled in the georgia militia by militia districts as required bt the act of 16th December 1863, for re-organizing the militia of the state