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2nd Lieutenant, 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 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 3

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: 
To what time: 

Present or absent: Absent
Remarks: At home on furlough sick

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: 
To what time: 

Present or absent: Present
Remarks: 

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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: On sick furlough

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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: Absent
Remarks: On furlough as usual

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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: 
To what time: 

Present or absent: 
Remarks: Resigned

Card 8

Appears on a 
Regimental Return
for the month of Feb., 1862

Commissioned officers present and absent: Absent
Station: Camp Mason
Remarks: Absent sick

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Appears on a 
Regimental Return
for the month of May., 1862

Commissioned officers present and absent: Absent
Station:  
Remarks: Absent sick at hospital

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Appears on an undated roster.

Date of appointment: Apl. 21, 1862

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

Date of appointment: Apl. 21, 1862
Date of resignation, death, transfer or promotion: Resigned Aug. 21, 1862

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

Date of appointment: 
Date of resignation, death, transfer or promotion: Promoted

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[Back of resignation.]

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To the Secretary of War

I the undersigned do hereby tender my resignation as 1st Lt of Com. I 37th Regt Va Vols my health being sutch as to disqualify me for the discharge of the duties of the Officers.
John M. Kendrick 1st Lieut Company I 37th Regt Va Vols
Aug 2nd 1862
Official

T. V. Williams Col Comd 37 Va
James L White Hdq

From my knowledge of Lieut Kindricks general health at the time of his leaving the Regt I have no doubt that it is yet such as to disqualify him for active military life.

M. M. Butler
Asst. Surg. 37th Reg Va Vols
Augst 3d 1862