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Private, Company C, 37th Virginia Infantry

Appears on a muster roll for Feby 28 to Mch. 30, 1862 (Not dated)

Enlisted:
When: Mar. 13, 1862
Where: Russell Co. 
By whom: Capt. McElhenny
Period: 3 years

Last paid:
By whom: 
To what time: 

Present or absent: Present
Remarks: Recruit

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

Enlisted:
When: Mar. 13
Where: Lebanon, Va
By whom: Capt. McElhenny
Period: 3 years

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

Present or absent: Present
Remarks: 

Card 3

Appears on a muster roll for July & Aug., 1862 (Not dated)

Enlisted:
When: Mar. 13, 1862
Where: Lebanon, Va
By whom: Capt. McElhenny
Period: 3 yrs

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

Present or absent: Present
Remarks: 

Card 4

Appears on a muster roll for Sept. & Oct., 1862 (Not dated)

Enlisted:
When: Mar. 13, 1862
Where: Lebanon 
By whom: Capt. John F. McElhenny
Period: 3 yrs

Last paid:
By whom: Capt. Cole
To what time: Aug. 31

Present or absent: Present
Remarks: 

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

Enlisted:
When: Mar. 13, 1862
Where: Lebanon 
By whom: Capt. J. F. McElhenny
Period: 3 yrs

Last paid:
By whom: Capt. Cole
To what time: Oct. 31

Present or absent: Present
Remarks: 

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Appears on a
Roll of Prisoners of War
forwarded from Harrisburg, Pa., to Philadelphia, Pa., July 9, 1863.

Roll dated Office Provost Marshal, Harrisburg, July 9, 1863.

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

Where and when captured: Gettysburg July 3, 1863
When received: July 7/12, 1863

Card 8

Appears on a register of
Prisoners of War
sent from Fort Delaware, Del., to Point Lookout, Md., October 26, 1863.

Roll dated: Not dated

Where captured: Gettysburg
When captured: July 3, 1863

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Appears on a
Roll of Prisoners of War
at Point Lookout, Md., released January 21 to 31, 1864, on taking the oath of allegiance and joining the United States service.

Roll dated: Not dated

Where captured: Gettysburg
When captured: July 3, 1863
Date of release: Jany 26

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

Date of arrival: Fort Delaware Oct. 27, 1863.
Where captured: Gettysburg
When captured: July 3, 1863
Remarks: Joined U. S. Service January 26, 1864

Card 11

Appears on a RECEIPT ROLL for clothing, for 1 Qr., 1863

Date of issue: Jan. 1, 1863
Jan. 18, 1863
Feb. 13, 1863
Feb. 14, 1863
Signature: 

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"I do hereby certify that on the 26 day of Jany, 1864, at Pt. Lookout Md, the oath prescribed by the President of the United States in his proclamation of December, 8, 1863 of the parole, was duly taken, subscribed, and made matter of record by Jacob S. Mitchum, of Russell Co Va." C. 37 Va

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1st Regiment U. S. Volunteers (UNION)

Muster and Descriptive Roll of a Detachment of U. S. Vols. forwarded

for the 1 Reg't U. S. Volunteers. Roll dated
Norfolk, Va., May 1, 1864

Where born: Montgomery Co., Va
Age: 34 y'rs; Occupation: Ditcher
When enlisted: Jany 26, 1864
Where enlisted: Pt. Lookout, Md
For what period enlisted: 3 years
Eyes: Hazel; hair: Sandy
Complexion: Light; height: 5 ft. 7 1/2 in.
When mustered in: May 1, 1864
Where mustered: Norfolk, Va

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Company G, 1 Reg't U. S. Vol. Inf.

Appears on Company Descriptive Book

DESCRIPTIVE.

Age: 34 years; height:  5 ft. 7 1/2 in.
Complexion: Light
Eyes: Hazel; hair: Sandy
Where born: Montgomery Co., Va
Occupation: Ditcher

ENLISTMENT.

When: Jan. 26
Where: Pt. Lookout, Md
By whom: Lt. Backerman; term: 3 y'rs.
Remarks: Disch'd by reason of disability at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. Jan. 18/66

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Private, Company G, 1 Reg't U. S. Vol. Inf.

Appears on Company Muster Roll for Enlistment to Apr. 30, 1864

Joined for duty and enrolled:
When: Jan. 26, 1864
Where: Pt. Lookout, Md.
Period: 3 years.

Mustered in:
When: May 1
Where: Norfolk, Va

Present or absent: Present

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Appears on Returns as follows:

May 1864 Absent on Prov. Guard Duty Hdqrs Norfolk Va Since May 15/64

July 1864 Absent on Prov. Guard Duty Hdqrs Norfolk Va Since May 15/64

Nov. & Dec 1865 Absent sick in Hosp. at Fort Leavenworth Kas Nov 1/65.

Jany 1866 Absent sock in Hosp at St. Louis Mo.

Feb 1866 Loss. Jany 18/66 Fort Leavenworth Kas. Dischgd By reason of Disability

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Appears on Muster Roll for May & June, 1864
Present or absent: Present

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Appears on Muster Roll for July & Aug., 1864
Present or absent: Present

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Appears on Muster Roll for Sept. & Oct., 1864
Present or absent: Present

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Appears on Muster Roll for Nov. & Dec., 1864
Present or absent: Present

Card 21

Appears on Muster Roll for Jan. & Feb., 1865
Present or absent: Present

Card 22

Appears on Muster Roll for Mar. & April, 1865
Present or absent: Present

Card 23

Appears on Muster Roll for May & June, 1865
Present or absent: Present

Remarks: to be stopped for one cartridge Box Belt Plate lost or destroyed 10 len cents

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Appears on Muster Roll for July & Aug., 1865
Present or absent: Present

Card 25

Appears on Muster Roll for Sept. & Oct., 1865
Present or absent: Present

Remarks: Absent sick at Hospital at Fort Leavenworth Kansas

Card 26

Appears on Hospital Muster Roll
of U. S. A. Hospital,
at Fort Leavenworth, Kans.

for Nov. & Dec., 1865.

Attached to hospital:
When: Oct. 24, 1865
How employed: Patient

Last paid by Maj. Smith
to Apl. 30

Present or absent: Present

Remarks: From partial D. Roll dated A. G. O. Dec 13/65

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Appears on Muster Roll for Nov. & Dec., 1865
Present or absent: Absent

Remarks: Absent sick in hospl at Fort Leavenworth Kas

Card 28

Appears on Muster Roll for Jan. & Feb., 1866
Present or absent: 

Remarks: discharged by reason of certificate of disability at Fort Leavenworth Kaas Jany 18 1866

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Age: 34 years

Appears on Co. Muster-out Roll, dated Fort Leavenworth Kas May 21, 1866

Remarks: discharged at Fort Leavenworth Kas Jany 18 1866 for disability

Card 30

Return of Fort Fletcher, Kansas,
for the month of January, 1866
dated February 8, 1866,
shows the following with regard to the person named above:

Post or station:
Remarks: In hospital at Fort Leavenworth Kansas

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7 Enclosures.

Bed Cards: 1

Certs of Dis. for Discharge: 1

Enlistment Papers: 3

Discharge from Service: 1

Med. Examination: 1

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Hospital Number 424

Name: Jacob Mitcham
Age: 32; Nativity: Virginia
Married or Single: Married
Residence: Russel co. Virginia
Post Office address of wife or nearest relative: Lebanon Va Nancy G. Mitchem

Rank: Pvt Co. G 1st Regiment of Inf Vols

When admitted: Oct 23d 68
From what source: Regiment

Diagnosis: (In surgical cases, state explicitly seat and character of wound or injury.)

Conjunctivitis

Post Hospital,
Ft. Leavenworth, Kan.

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M. 393 D. O. D. Mo. 1866

CERTIFICATE OF DISABILITY FOR DISHCARGE
In the case of

Jacob S. Mitchem
a Private Co. E
1st Infy Reg't of U. S. Vols.

Jan 10. 66
Approved
E. J. [...]

Head Quarters Dept. of the Mo. St. Louis Mo. January 12th, 1866
To be Discharged
By order of
Maj. Gen. Pope

[Signature]
Capt. 13th Mo. Cav.
Actg A. A. General

Received (A. G. Office) ______ 186_
D. O. D. Mo. Jan. 12th 1866

Adjutant General's
Jan. 27, 1866
Duplicate sent the Pension

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ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES.

CERTIFICATE OF DISABILITY FOR DISCHARGE.

Jacob S. Mitchem, private of Captain _____
Company, (G,) of the First Regiment of United States
Vol. Infty, was enlisted by Lt. W. H. Barkeman of the ____ Regiment
of _______ at Point Lookout, Md. on the twenty-sixth day of January 1864, to serve 3 years;
he was born in _____ in the State of ____ is ___ years of age, ____ feet ___ inches high, 
____ complexion, ____ eyes, ___ hair, and by occupation when enlisted a _____ During the last two months
said soldier has been unfit for duty 60 days.

Nothing known as to cause of disability.

STATION: Post Hospital Fort Leavenworth, KS. January 4th 1866

J. V. D. Reese
Co. USA
Commanding

I CERTIFY, that I have carefully examined the said Jacob S. Mitchum, private of Captain ___
(G) Company, and find him incapable of performing the duties of a soldier because of
Gonnanharal opetta aluria both eyes, with loss of sight of left eye untreated since enlistment.
[...] of Disability for pension nothing

Wm. S. Buchanan
[...] Surgeon USA.

DISCHARGED, this Eighteenth day of Jany 1866 at Ft. Leavenworth
J. V. D. Keene
[...]
Commanding the Post.

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Headquarters Post,
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, January 18, 1866

Commanding Officer
Comp. G, 1st US V. Infantry

SIR:

I have the honor to inform you that Jacob S. Mitchem, Private, of your company, was this day discharged at this Post of Certificate of Disability.

Very Respectfully,
Your Obedient Servant,
J. V. D. Reese
Colonel U S I Commanding Post

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No. B

Jacob S. Mitchem
Volunteered at Point Lookout Md
Jan 26th 1864
By Lt. F. M. Norcross 30th Regt Mass Vols
for the 1st Regiment of U S Vols.

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VOLUNTEER ENLISTMENT.

I Jacob S. Mitcham born in Montgomery Co. in the State of Virginia aged 34 years, and by occupation a Ditcher DO HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGE to have volunteered this 26 day of January 1864, to serve as a Soldier in the Army of the United States of America, for the period of THREE YEARS, unless sooner discharged by proper authority: Do also agree to accept such bounty, pay, rations, and clothing, as are, or may be, established by law for volunteers. And I, _____ do solemnly swear, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the United States of America, and that I will serve them honestly and faithfully against all their enemies or opposers whomsoever; and that I will observe and obey the orders of the President of the United States, and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to the Rules and Articles of War.

Sworn and subscribed to, at Point Lookout, Md.
this 26 day of January 1864.
BEFORE F. M. Norcross

[Signed by mark.]

I CERTIFY, ON HONOR, That I have carefully examined the above-named Volunteer, agreeably to the General Regulations of the Army, and that, in my opinion, he is free from all bodily defects and mental infirmity, which would in any way disqualify him from performing the duties of a soldier.

William Child
Asst. Surg. [...]

I CERTIFY, ON HONOR, that I have minutely inspected the Volunteer, _____ previously to his enlistment, and that he was entirely sober when enlisted; that, to the best of my judgment and belief, he is of lawful age; and that, in accepting him as duly qualified to perform the duties of an able-bodied soldier, I have strictly observed the Regulations which govern the recruiting service. This soldiers has Hazel eyes, sandy hair, Light complexion, is 5 feet 7 1/2 inches high.

F. M. Norcross
1st Lieut. 30th Regiment of Mass Volunteers.
RECRUITING OFFICER.

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DECLARATION OF RECRUIT.

I, Jacob S. Mitchum, desiring to VOLUNTEER as a Soldier in the Army of the United States, for the term of THREE YEARS, Do Declare, That I am thirty four years and ____ months of age; that I have never been discharged from the United States service on account of disability, or by sentence of a court-martial, or by order before the expiration of a term of enlistment; and I know of no impediment to my serving honestly and faithfully as a soldier for three years.

GIVEN at Norfolk Va
the 29 day of April 1864.

Witness: M. C. Backerman
2nd Lt 1st U S

[Signed by mark.]

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VOLUNTEER ENLISTMENT.

STATE OF Maryland

DIST OF St Marys

I Jacob S. Mitcham born in Montgomery Co. in the State of Virginia aged 34 years, and by occupation a Ditcher DO HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGE to have volunteered this 26 day of January 1864, to serve as a Soldier in the Army of the United States of America, for the period of THREE YEARS, unless sooner discharged by proper authority: Do also agree to accept such bounty, pay, rations, and clothing, as are, or may be, established by law for volunteers. And I, Jacob S. Mitchum do solemnly swear, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the United States of America, and that I will serve them honestly and faithfully against all their enemies or opposers whomsoever; and that I will observe and obey the orders of the President of the United States, and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to the Rules and Articles of War.

Sworn and subscribed to, at Norfolk Va
this 29 day of April 1864.
BEFORE [...]
1st Lt. Co. c. 1st U S I

[Signed by mark.]

I CERTIFY, ON HONOR, That I have carefully examined the above-named Volunteer, agreeably to the General Regulations of the Army, and that, in my opinion, he is free from all bodily defects and mental infirmity, which would in any way disqualify him from performing the duties of a soldier.

G. H. W. Herrick
Asst. Surg. 1st U S I

I CERTIFY, ON HONOR, that I have minutely inspected the Volunteer, J S Mitchum previously to his enlistment, and that he was entirely sober when enlisted; that, to the best of my judgment and belief, he is of lawful age; and that, in accepting him as duly qualified to perform the duties of an able-bodied soldier, I have strictly observed the Regulations which govern the recruiting service. This soldiers has Hazel eyes, sandy hair, light complexion, is 5 feet 7 1/2 inches high.

2nd Lt M C Backerman
1st Regiment of U S Volunteers,
RECRUITING OFFICER.

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[Multiple copies of enlistment papers.]

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FORM FOR EXAMINING A RECRUIT.

RECRUIT: Jacob S. Mitcham, age 33, occupation Ditcher born in Montgomery Va, presented by Lt Norcross.

1. Have you ever been sick? Yes.
When, and of what diseases? 1865 Typhoid Fever

2. Have you any disease now, and what? No

3. Have you ever had fits? No

4. Have you ever received an injury or wound upon the head? No

5. Have you ever had a fracture, a dislocation, or a sprain? No

6. Are you in the habit of drinking? Sometimes. Or have you ever had the "horrors?" No

7. Are you subject to the piles? No

8. Have you any difficulty in urinating? No

9. Have you been vaccinated, or had the small pox? Yes, both ans.
Head: Normal
Ears: "
Face: "
Eyes and Appendages: "
Nose: "
Organs of Mastication and Voice: "
Neck: "
Chest: "
Abdomen: "
Genital and Urinary Organs: "
Vertebral Column: "
Superior Extremities: "
Inferior Extremities: Cicatrix on left leg from gun shot wound.

DATE: Febr. 3d 1864
RENDEZVOUS: Point Lookout, MD

William Child
Asst. Surg. 5 N H Vols
Inspecting Surgeon.

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B 182 H 2 D K Jan 26th 1866 L R 13/66

DESCRIPTIVE LIST 
OF

Jacob Mitchum
1st Reg't U S V Infty Co G.

[...]

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DESCRIPTIVE LIST and Account of Pay and Clothing of Jacob S. Mitcham, a Private in Co. G, 1st Reg't U. S. Vol. Infty.

DESCRIPTION.
Name: Jacob S. Mitchum
Rank: Private
Years of age: Thirty four 34
Eyes: Hazel
Hair: Sandy
Complexion: Light
Feet: 5 feet
Inches: 7 1/2 in

WHERE BORN.
State of Kingdom: Virginia
Town or County: Montgomery

Occupation: Ditcher

ENROLLED.
When: 26 January 1864
Where: Pt. Lookout, Md.
By whom: Lieut Becherman

MUSTERED.
When: May 1st, 1864
Where: Norfolk Va
By whom: Lt. Ladd
Period: 3 Years

LAST PAID.
By Paymaster: Major Smith
To what time: August 31, 1865

REMARKS.

Jacob S. Mitcham Private co. G 1st U. S. Vol. Infty. was left at Lt. Leavenworth Kansas in Hospital.
Clothing drawn in kind since last settlement money value of $67.86.
He was accountable for on Haversack 1 Knapsack 1 Canteen.

I CERTIFY that the above is a correct transcript from the records of Co. G, 1st Reg't U. S. Vol. Infty

W. H. Bleadenhis Capt.
Commanding Co. G, 1st Reg't U. S. Vol. Infty.

DATE: February 8th, 1866
STATION: Fort Fletcher Kansas

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Book No. 1 page 253 (name number 575) Point Lookout Md shows:
J. S. Mitcham
Pvt. Co "C" 37 Va captured at Gettysburg, Pa on July 3, 63 [...] Released on Oath of allegiance, o Jany 26/64

Nov. 7/16 Hawley