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: 24

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 Register of
General Hospital, Camp Winder,
Richmond, Virginia.

Disease: Diarrhoea Ch.
Admitted: July 14, 1863
Returned to duty: July 25, 1863

Card 3

Appears on a RECEIPT ROLL for clothing, for 2 Qr., 1864

Date of issue: 
Signature: Larkin Fleher

Card 4

Appears on a RECEIPT ROLL for clothing, for 1 Qr., 1864

Date of issue: Feb. 15, 1864
Signature: Larkin Fletcher

Card 5

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: Capt. Dunbar
To what time: June 30

Present or absent: Present
Remarks: 

Card 6

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

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

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

Present or absent: Absent
Remarks: On furlough reenlisted

Card 7

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 or absent: Present
Remarks: 

Card 8

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: Capt. Cole
To what time: Apl. 30

Present or absent: Absent
Remarks: Sick at Hospital

Card 9

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

Enlisted:
When: May 2
Where: New Garden
By whom: Lt. Samples
Period: 3 ys

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

Present or absent: Absent
Remarks: Sick at Hospital

Card 10

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. Cole
To what time: Aug. 31

Present or absent: Present
Remarks: Promoted to 2 Lt. Sept. 23

Card 11
Lieutenant, Company I, 37th Virginia Infantry

Appears on a muster roll of Companies G and I (consolidated) for Nov. & Dec., 1862 (Not dated) 

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

Last paid:
By whom: 
To what time: 

Present or absent: Absent 
Remarks: At Hospital reduced to ranks Nov. 21, 1862

Card 12

Appears on a roll of
Prisoners of War
at Point Lookout, Md.

Date of arrival: Fort Delaware Oct. 31, 1864
Where captured: Spottsylvania
When captured: May 8, 1864
Remarks: Exchanged October 31st, 1864.

Card 13

Appears on a
Roll of Prisoners of War
at Belle Plains Landing, Va.

Roll dated: Not dated

Where captured: near Spottsylvania C. H.
When captured: May 12, 1864

Card 14

Appears on a register of
Prisoners of War
at Fort Delaware, Del.

Where and when captured: Spottsylvania C. H. May 12, 1864
When received: May 20, 1864

Exchanged: Oct. 30, 1864

Card 15

Name appears as signature to a
Roll of Prisoners of War
paroled at Fort Delaware, Del., October 30, 1864

Roll dated: Not dated

Where captured: Spotts. C. H. Va.
When captured: May 8, 1864

x Signature by mark

Card 16

Appears on 
Bounty Pay and Receipt Roll dated: Camp Mason Feb. 18, 1862

Bounty: $50
Signature: Larken Fletcher

Card 17

Appears on a Register of
C. S. A. General Hospital,
Charlottesville, Virginia.

Complaint: Anasarca
Admitted: May 13, 1862
Returned to duty: June 2, 1862

Card 18

Appears on a Register of
C. S. A. General Hospital,
Charlottesville, Virginia.

Complaint: Anasarca
Admitted: May 13, 1862
Returned to duty: June 1, 1862

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WAR DEPARTMENT
THE ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE
WASHINGTON

June 17, 1933

Respectfully returned to

C. C. Fletcher
Prescott, Arkansas

The name Larkin Fletcher has not been found on the muster rolls on file in this office of any company of the 29th Regiment Virginia Infantry, Confederate States Army.

The service of Captain Sample has not been identified as of that organization.

The records show, however, that Larkin Fletcher, Private, Company I, 37th Regiment Virginia Infantry, Confederate States Army, enlisted May 2, 1861 at New Garden. He was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant September 23, 1862. Muster roll for November and December, 1862, last roll on file, show him absent, "at Hospital, reduced to ranks November 21, 1862." Union records show that he was captured May 12, 1864, near Spotsylvania Court House, imprisoned at Point Lookout Md, and Fort Delaware, Delaware, at which place he was paroled October 30, 1864, and received November 15, 1864, at Venus Point, Savannah, River, by Confederate States Agent for exchange. No later record has been found. William P. Samples was 2nd Lieutenant of the company. No list of battles in which this organization participated has been compiled in this office.

James F. McKinley
Major General
The Adjutant General