Card 1
Private, Company I, 37th Virginia Infantry

Appears on a muster roll dated May 31st, 1861

Enrolled for active service on: May 3
Enrolled for active service at: New Garden
Enrolled by: Capt. J. F. McElhenney
Period: 1 year

Age: 19

Company was enrolled for active service at Honaker, Va., on the 3rd day of May, 1861 and travelled then to Abingdon where it arrived on the 30th, 1861, a distance of 34 miles.

Card 2

Appears on a muster roll for July & Aug., 1861 (Dated Aug. 31)

Enlisted:
When: May 2
Where: New Garden
By whom: Capt. S. Hunt
Period: 12 mos.

Last paid:
By whom: Capt. Dunbar
To what time: June 30

Present

Card 3
4 Corp., Company I, 37th Virginia Infantry

Appears on a muster roll for Jan. & Feb., 1862 (Dated June 13, 1862)

Enlisted:
When: May 2
Where: New Garden
By whom: Capt. S. Hunt
Period: 1 year

Last paid:
By whom: Capt. Haller
To what time: Dec. 31

Present

Card 4

Appears on a muster roll for Mch. & Apr., 1862 (Dated Aug. 15, 1862)

Enlisted:
When: May 2
Where: New Garden
By whom: Capt. Hunt
Period: 12 mos.

Last paid:
By whom: Capt. Cole
To what time: Feb. 28

Present

Card 5

Appears on a muster roll for May & June, 1862 (Not dated)

Enlisted:
When: May 2
Where: New Garden
By whom: Capt. Hunt
Period: 3 yrs

Present

Card 6

Appears on a muster roll for July & Aug, 1862 (Dated Sept. 28, 1862)

Enlisted:
When: May 2
Where: New Garden
By whom: Capt. Hunt
Period: 3 yrs

Remarks: Deserted from Camp Liberty Mills Aug 2/62

Card 7

Appears on a muster roll for Sept. & Oct., 1862 (Dated Dec. 11, 1862)

Enlisted:
When: May 2
Where: New Garden
By whom: Capt. Hunt
Period: 3 yrs

Last paid:
By whom: Capt. Haller
To what time: Dec. 31

Remarks: Deserted

Card 8

Appears on a muster roll for Nov. & Dec., 1862 (Not dated)

Enlisted:
When: May 19
Where: New Garden
By whom: Capt. Hunt
Period: 1 yr

Last paid:
By whom: Capt. Haller
To what time: Dec. 31, 1861

Remarks: Deserted

Card 9

CONFEDERATE State of Service Reference Slip.

Dept. Confederate
Mil. Records, Va

John W. Ball
Co. I 37 Regt. Va. Inf. C.S.A.

Archives division:
Any later record?
[...]
No later record found.
[...]

Card 10
2 Lt., Company D, Bowen's Regiment Mounted Riflemen, 22nd Virginia Cavalry

Appears on a muster roll for To Oct. 31, 1863 (Dated Oct. 31, 1863)

Enlisted:
When: May 1, 1863
Where: Russell Co., Va
By whom: Capt. Ball
Period: 3 yrs

Present

Card 11

Appears on a Roster dated Jan. 10, 1865

Remarks: Dropped from Rolls.

Card 12

Appears on a List of absent officers of McCausland's Cavalry Brigade.

List dated: Near Luray Oct. 25, 1864

Absent since: Sept. 23, 1864
Cause of absence: Without leave

What measures taken to have them retired or returned: No steps taken to have him returned.

Card 13

Appears on an Inspection Report of Lomax's Cavalry Division.

Report dated: In the Field Dec. 15, 1864

Absent commission officers accounted for:
By what authority: Recommended to be dropped.

Date: Sept. 20, 1864
Remarks: Without authority

Card 14

Appears on a Register containing Rosters of Commissioned Officers, Provisional Army Confederate States.

Date of resignation, death, transfer or promotion: Dropped Dec. 6, 1864

Remarks: S. O. 289

Card 15

Subject: Arrested & returned to Co. G. 37th Va. Vol.

Special Order Number: 5/25/

Jan. 7, 1864

Adjutant & Inspector General's Office, Confederate States, contains information relative to the man named, on the subject mentioned above.

Card 16

Name dropped.

A. & I. G. O.
S. O. 289/35

Dec. 6, 1864

Card 17

[Copy of Amnesty Oath, signed at Charleston, WV.]

Before the subscriber, Wm. [...] Maj. & Provost Marshal, this day came John W. Ball Capt. from Co. D 22 Regiment Va. Cav. and resident of Russell County, State of Virginia. [...]
15 DAY OF APRIL 1865.

DESCRIPTION
Age: 23
Height: 6 1 1/2
Complexion: Dark
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Dark
Occupation: Farmer

[Signed by name.]