HAYWOOD COUNTY, NC - MILITARY - Jones, Zachariah Pullman, Jr.
				Compiled Service Record - Confederate
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Jones, Zachariah Pullman, Jr. ­ Company L, 16th North Carolina
Infantry Regiment, CSA [Son of Zachariah Pullman Jones Sr. and
Sarah Morrow of Haywood County]

Transcription © Marshall Styles, marshallstyles@yahoo.com

When Zachariah P. Jones, Jr. was about 17 years old he enlisted
on May 4, 1861 as a private during the Civil War, fighting with
Company L, 16th North Carolina Infantry Regiment of Thomas'
Legion in the Confederate Army. In October of the following year
he was reassigned to Company E of the 69th NC Regiment. In a
unit reorganization near War's end, Zack was reassigned to
Company E, Love's Regiment of Thomas' Legion No other records
exist on his Civil War service, save for some not-so-favorable
remarks in his Haywood County court and estate proceedings,
1876-1892.

Private Zachariah P. Jones, Confederate States Army, Thomas’
Legion, Co. B & E, Infantry Regiment, Haywood County, Compiled
Service Records. [The Legion also contained a sizable number of
Cherokee Indians from the nearby reservation.]

May 4 1861, Enlisted at Waynesville, N.C., by Col. R.G.A. Love,
for a period of one year.

September thru October 1862, Co. B [reorganized as Company C,
November 1862). Absent without leave.

November thru December 1862, present for duty.

January thru February 1863, absent from Company, detailed for
duty with Lt. Moody. Last paid October 31 1862.

March thru April 1863, present for duty. Last paid by an officer
Deadrick, March 1 1863.

May 31 1863, received payment of $35.00.

May thru June 1863, absent on detail as a teamster for the Post
Commissary at Strawberry Plains, Tennessee. Last paid April 30
1863 by Deadrick or officer J.W. Terrell; both are noted in the
records for the same pay date.

September thru October 1863, absent on detached service.

November thru December 1863, absent on detached service,
detailed to Quartermaster Department, Bristol, Tennessee. Has
not been paid since April 30.

February 4 1864, placed his mark "x" on a pay voucher for
$22.00, pay for period November 1 1863 thru January 1 1864, at
Bristol, Tennessee, by Captain R.H. Hill.

January thru February 1864, attached to Quartermaster Department
at Bristol. [Spending too much time in Bristol, and not enough
with the troops in the field, would result in Zack contracting
syphilis, from which he died after the war. Having also
inflicted his wife after returning home, she, too, would die
from the disease.]

May 31 1864, he places his mark "x" on a voucher, "For services
as Extra duty man, teamsters from January 1st to May 20 1864,
being (140) one hundred & forty days @ 25 cents per day, $35.00,
Bristol, Tennessee.

September 2 1864, Co. E., received payment of $44.00, for four
months pay.

September 22 & 28 1864, Co. E, placed his mark "x" on a clothing
requisition.

No further records in his file


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