HENRY COUNTY, GA - MILITARY - Muster Roll for William J. Nixon 

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Nixon, William J.
Co. A, 44 Georgia Infantry
 (Confederate)
Sergeant	Sergeant
	Card Numbers
1 - 46120184
2 - 46120253
3 - 46320089
4 - 46338883
5 - 43364854
6 - 52571245
7 - 52592117

	Number of medical cards herein:	2
	Number of personal papers herein:	0
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William J. Nixon
5 Sgt, Co. A, 44 Reg't Georgia Infantry

Appears on
	Company Muster Roll

of the organization named above,

For:	Dated Apl. 1, 1864

Enlisted:
When:		May 18, 1862
Where:	Henry Cty, Ga
By whom:	Capt. W. H. Peebles
Period:	3 yrs.or War

Last Paid:
By whom: W. J. Neary
To what time:	Dec 31, 1863

Present or absent: Present
Remarks:   (none)

(signed) J. T. Hensley
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William J. Nixon
4 Sgt, Co. A, 44 Reg't Georgia Infantry

Appears on
	Company Muster Roll

of the organization named above,

For:	July & Aug, 1864

Enlisted:
When:		May 15, 1862
Where:	Goldsboro, N. C.
By whom:	Capt. Peebles
Period:	3 yrs.or War

Last Paid:
By whom: W. J. Neary
To what time:	Dec 31, 1863

Present or absent: Absent
Remarks:	Prisoner of War
(signed) J. T. Hensley
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W. J. Nixon
Sergt Co. A 44 Regt Ga
Appears on a register of 
	Prisoners of War

at Fort Delaware, Del.

Where and when captured: Spottsylvania, Ga (this should say Va)
May 10, 1864
When received: May 20, 1864

Exchanged: March 7, 1865

Fort Delaware, Del., Register No. 2; page 186

(signed) J. Jacobson
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W. J. Nixon
Sergt Co. A 44 Reg't Georgia
Appears on a
	Roll of Prisoners of War

Received at Fort Delaware, Del., from Belle
Plain, Va., May 21, 1864.

Roll dated: not dated

Where captured: Spottsylvania CH
When captured May 10 1864

Number of roll:
186; sheet 11

(signed) L L Barton
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W. J. Nixon
Pvt Co A 44 Georgia Regt Inf

Appears on a Register of
	Medical Director's Office
		Richmond, VA

Admitted March 28, 1863
Hospital: Lynchburg No. 4
Complaint: Chro. Diarrhea

Confed. Arch., Chap. 6, File No. 153, page 228
(signed) O. T. Taylor

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W. J. Nixon
Pvt Co A 44 Regt Ga.

Appears on a Register of
	Medical Director's Office
		Richmond, VA

Hospital: Winder Div. 3

Furloughed 30 days Oct 7 1862

Confed. Arch., Chap. 6, File No. 156, page 4
(signed) G. M. Nowe
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The Confederate States, Dr.
	To: W. J. Nixon
			C. S. Army.
		Co. A 44 Ga
======================================================
							Dollars	Cts.
For Monthly Pay, from 15 May 1862 to Aug 31 1862

Being 3 months 16 days at 13. Per month		45.50
			Clothing				25.
			Bounty				50.

Deduct, due							(blank)
						Amount paid	120.50

I certify that I have endorsed this Payment on W. J. Nixon's
			Descriptive Roll

					John Acably


Received, Richmond, this 7 day of Oct 1862
From Maj. John Amblen Quartermaster C. S. Army, the sum of
One hundred & twenty  50/100Dollars,
Being the amount, and in full of the above account.

	Witmess

			[Signed Duplicates] W. J. Nixon

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					Richmond, _____________________----- 1862
	Personally appeared before me a  (blank)
			Co. (  ),          Regt.     Vols., and made oath
That he is without a descriptive roll or final statement, which is impossible to
Obtain from his commanding officer, for the reason that his company is now _____
____________ that the within account, amounting to                       dollars,
os correct; that he is not in debt to the Confederacy and that he will present a
statement of this payment to his Commanding Officer.

							John B. Proctor
							Major ?????
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Notes: I believe William J. Nixon is the same as the one who was 
previously enlisted in Co. B & D, 2nd Battalion Georgia Infantry 
(AKA: Spalding Greys), which he was discharged from on May 14, 1862 
-- 4 days before he enlisted in Co., A, 44th Georgia Infantry ~ vjf

Source:
National Archives Microfilm Publications
Microcopy No. 266

Compiled Service Records of
Confederate Soldiers who Served in
Organizations from the State of
Georgia

Roll 469

Forty-fourth Infantry, Mu - Sm

The National Archives
National Archives and Records Service
General Services Administration
Washington: 1959

Xeroxed from the original microfilms for me by the:

Genealogical & Historical Room
Washington Memorial Library
1180 Washington Avenue
Macon, GA  31201-1790
on 14 January 2003