HANCOCK COUNTY, GA - MILITARY INDIAN WAR Capt A.C. Brown - 1836 "Hancock Blues" ***************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm *********************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Linda Ayres WwLSARANDOLPH@aol.com Captain Brown's Hancock County Georgia Militia 1836 [This muster roll is almost impossible to read] Brown, A.C Captain Butts, Benjamin K 1st Lieutenant Turner, Thomas M 2nd Lieutenant Brooking, E.W 3rd Lieutenant Barnes, E.S. Ensign Butts, David E 1st Sergeant Sanders, Mark 2nd Sergeant Pinkston, E.W. 3rd Sergeant Barnes, James W 4th Sergeant Foster, Abner 1st Corporal Sharp, Richard 2nd Corporal Jordan- 3rd Corporal Wade, Benjamin 4th Corporal Privates: Amos, B.C Blount, Reading Boyer, John Buffington, J.M Burton, William B Butts, E.A Choice, S Coleman, C Crawford, J.L Crawford, R.F Cubage, J Dickson, E.A Dickson, Green W English, A Ewing, C.H.P Ewing, J.P.C Ferguson, R Ford, J Grant, J.G Hall, M Hester, D Lacy, H Lacy, J.E Lanier, E.A Lewis, H Lewis, J.B McDaniel, C McDaniel, W Morris, C Paine, J Pinkston, J.K Pool, William Pritchett, Phillip Rachels, Burl Rachels, E Rachels, H Rachels, J Robertson, S Rogers, P Shivers, -. W Smith, G.W Tripp, William Warwick, S.J Warwick, William T Wide, William White, J Yarbrough, S Newspaper account: Transcribed by Lindy Hard NOTES: (Transcribed by Lindy Hardy) Federal Union (Milledgeville) 29 Jan 1836 MILITARY DRAFT-The Commander in chief having, in general orders, required a draft of one hundred and ten men from the first brigade, and two hundred and thirty from the second brigade, of the third division, G. M. Major Gen. J. W. A. Sanford, has issued orders requiring officers commanding regiments in those brigades, forthwith to assemble their commands and detail proportionate numbers of men, by draft, or voluntary enlistment, for the Florida service. Twenty men will be drafted from the Baldwin regiment, under the command of Col. A. HAMMOND, on Saturday, the 30th inst. AID TO FLORIDA.-The Governor has issued orders for a draft of thirty five hundred men, from the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th, 8th, 9th, 10th, divisions of militia, to be held, in readiness for an immediate march to Florida. He has also ordered the following Volunteer Companies of Infantry to march without delay, to aid the force already in Florida, viz: The Hancock Blues, Captain A. S. Brown; the State Fencibles, of Putnam, Captain J. A. Merriwether; the Morgan Guards, Captain N. G. Foster; the Monroe Musqueteers [Musketeers], Captain J. Cureton; and the Macon Volunteers, Captain J. Seymore. The three first of these companies will rendezvous at Milledgeville, and will join the other two at Macon; from whence they will proceed by water to Picolata. The Governor has also ordered the Washington Cavalry, Captain C. J. Malone, and the Baldwin Cavalry, to march immediately to Florida. The last corps has elected A. H. Kenan Esq. to its command during the expedition. These corps will constitute a force of about three hundred infantry, and between one and two hundred cavalry. The Richmond infantry, comprising one hundred men, left Augusta, for Florida, proceeding by water, down the Savannah river, on the 23rd instant. Colonel Bankhead, of the U. S. army, will take command of the artillery in Florida.