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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: 35

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 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: x
Remarks: Sick at Monterey

x Name appears in Column of Names Present

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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. Haller
To what time: Dec. 31

Present or absent: Present
Remarks: 

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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. Cole
To what time: Feb. 28

Present or absent: Absent
Remarks: Sick at Hospital

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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: Present
Remarks: 

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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: Discharged Aug. 5

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Appears on a
Register
of Payments to Discharged Soldiers.

Date of discharge: 2 Aug., 1862
Date of payment: 2 Aug., 1862
By whom: J. L. Cole

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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: Discharged

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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 1, 1862

Remarks: wounded in head

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No. 22
Paid August 2, 1862
Charles Short
Private in Co. I 37th Va Regt
From 28th Febry to 2nd August 1862
Amt: $76.39

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I CERTIFY, That the within named Charles Short, a private of Captain T. J. Smith's Company (I) of the 37th Regiment of VA Vols, born in Co. of Grayson in the State of Virginia, aged 37 years, 6 feet, ____ inches high, fair complexion, blue eyes, light hair, and by occupation a farmer was enlisted by Capt. S. Hunt, at New Garden, Va., on the 2nd day of May 1861, to serve one year and is now entitled to discharge by reason of the expiration of his term of service.

The said Short was last paid by Capt. Cole to include the 28th day of February, 1862, and has pay due from that date to the present date.  Commutation for six months clothing 25.00.

[Remainder of pay voucher, due $76.39. Signed by mark.]