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Private, Capt. S. Hunt's Company, 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: 29

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.

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Appears on a muster roll for to June 30, 1861 (Not dated)

Enlisted:
When: May 8
Where: 
By whom: 
Period: 

Last paid: 
By whom: 
To what time: 

Present or absent: 
Remarks: 

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Private, Company I, 37th Virginia Infantry

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 mo

Last paid: 
By whom: 
To what time: 

Present or absent: Absent
Remarks: Absent sick Gun Cartridge box & Bayonet

Card 4

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 or absent: Present 
Remarks: 

Name appears in column of names present as William Barton

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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. R. J. Haller
To what time: Oct. 31

Present or absent: Absent
Remarks: Taken prisoner at Kearnstown 23 March

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

Enlisted:
When: May 2
Where: New Garden
By whom: Capt. Hunt
Period: 3 y's

Last paid: 
By whom: 
To what time: 

Present or absent: Absent
Remarks: Taken prisoner at the battle of Kearnstown March 23

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

Enlisted:
When: May 2, 1861
Where: New Garden
By whom: Capt. Hunt
Period: 3 ys

Last paid: 
By whom: 
To what time: 

Present or absent: 
Remarks: Discharge Aug. 20 at Clarks Mountain

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

Enlisted:
When: May 2, 1861
Where: New Garden
By whom: Capt. Hunt
Period: 3 ys

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

Present or absent: 
Remarks: Discharged

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Appears on a List of non-commissioned officers and privates exchanged at Aiken's Landing, Va., Aug. 5, 1862.

List dated: Not dated

Captured:
Where: Winchester
When: Mar. 23

Delivered: June 9, 1862
by: Capt. Lyon 6 N. Y. Cav. from Ft. Monroe

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Appears on a Roll of Prisoners of War sent from Fort Delaware, Del., and exchanged at Aikens Landing, Va., August 5, 1862.

Roll dated: Not dated

Where captured: Winchester
When captured: March 23, 1862

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Appears on a Register of Payments to Discharge Soldiers.

Date of discharge: 20 Aug., 1862
Date of payment: 25 Aug., 1862
By whom: J. L. Cole

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Appears on a REPORT of casualties, of the 37th and 23d Regiments Va. Vols., in the engagement near Winchester, Va., March 23, 1862.

Report dated: Camp near Mt. Jackson April 11, 1862

Remarks: Missing

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[Back of pay voucher.]

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I CERTIFY, That the within named William Barton a private of Captain T. N. Smiths Company (I) of the 37th Regiment of Va. Vols., born in Russell Co. in the State of Virginia, aged 37 years, five feet 10 inches high, fair complexion, blue eyes, light hair, and by occupation a farmer was enlisted by Capt. S. Hunt at New Garden on the 2d day of May 1861, to serve one year and is now entitled to dischage by reason of expiration of his term of service.
The said William Barton was last paid by Capt. Cole to include the 30th day of April, 1862, and has pay due from that date to the present date.

[Remainder of pay voucher. Signed by name.]