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WALKER COUNTY                                  641
WALTON COUNTY                                  643
WARE COUNTY                                    651
WARREN COUNTY                                  652
WASHINGTON COUNTY                              659
WAYNE COUNTY                                   666
WEBSTER COUNTY                                 667
WHITE COUNTY                                   672
WHITFIELD COUNTY                               676
WILKES COUNTY                                  682
WILCOX COUNTY (no lists found)                 687
WILKINSON COUNTY                               687
WORTH COUNTY                                   694
INDEX                                          698
INDEX TO ENROLLING 01-1-410ERS & AIDS DE CAMP  841


                  INTRODUCTION TO

          1864 CENSUS FOR RE-ORGANIZING 
               THE GEORGIA MILITIA

   The following lists were abstracted from microfilm located at the Georgia Department of 
Archives & History in Atlanta, Georgia. The re-organization of 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. Governor Joseph Brown had insisted the state needed protection and had continually 
attempted to provide state troops which were, as soon as they were formed, taken into the 
Confederate Army. Since there was no homefront protection, Governor Brown and the Georgia 
Legislature issued an order for a statewide census which would enable a re-organization of the state 
militia.

   The beginning of the microfilm offers the following explanation and description of the lists:

                   "STATE OF GEORGIA 
           OFFICE ADJUTANT AND INSPECTOR GENERAL

  LIST OF MEN ENROLLED IN THE GEORGIA MILITIA BY MILITIA DISTRICTS 
         AS REQUIRED BY THE ACT OF 14TH DECEMBER 1863, 
          FOR RE-ORGANIZING THE MILITIA OF THE STATE

   The parts of the Militia re-organization act of December 14, 1863, which relate specifically 
to these records are as follows:
SECTION II. Be it further enacted, that within four days after being notified of his appointment, 
it shall be the duty of each Aid-de-Camp to commence the enrollment of all free white males 
resident in his District, who are or shall be of the age of sixteen years, and not over sixty years, or 
who may come to reside within the District, except those who shall actually be in the Army or Navy 
of the Confederate States, or in the State service. The enrollment shall be by Company Districts, 
and shall show the age, occupation and nativity of each person enrolled, the number of the 
Company District in which he may reside, and if any exemption is claimed, the ground of it.
SECTION III. And be it further enacted, that it shall be the duty of the Aid-de-Camp, within ten 
days after the enrollment has been completed in his district, to forward complete lists, in duplicate, 
of the enrollment in each county of his district, to the Adjutant and Inspector General, and to file 
with the Clerk of the Superior Court in each county, a copy of the enrollment in his county; and the 
Aid shall be empowered and required, when there are but few persons enrolled in a particular 
company district, to incorporate and consolidate, subject to the approval of the Governor, two or

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Cornell, Nancy J. 1864 Census for Re-Organizing the Georgia Militia. Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 2000. Digital Images. Ancestry.com Operations Inc, https://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=3007: 2012.

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