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: 20

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: Capt. Haller
To what time: Dec. 31

Present or absent: Present
Remarks: 

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: Capt. Haller
To what time: Feb. 28

Present or absent: Absent
Remarks: Wounded at Kearnstown & sent to Hospital

Card 5

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 6

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: Capt. Cole
To what time: Apl. 30

Present or absent: Absent
Remarks: Sick at Hospital

Card 7

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: 

Card 8

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: Capt. Cole
To what time: Oct. 31

Present or absent: 
Remarks: Deserted

Card 9

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

Card 10

Statement of Service Reference Slip.
Dept. Confed. Mil. Records, Va

Thomas Short
Co. I, 37 Reg't Va. Inf.

Pvt.
Enlisted May 2, 1861, M. R. Sept & Oct. 1862 (last on file) Present. Muster Roll of Co. G & I (consolidated) for Nov. & Dec., 1862 (only roll on which borne) Deserted.
Date of desertion not shown.
No P. of W. record found.
7/3/16
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Nothing additional found.
Harley.
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Card 11

July 3, 1916

Respectfully returned to

Col. Joseph V. Bidgood,
Secretary, Department 
Confederate Military Records,
Richmond, Virginia.

The records show that Thomas Short, private, Co. I, 37th Virginia Infantry, C. S. A., enlisted May 2, 1861. On muster roll of Companies G and I (Consolidated), for November and December, 1862, he was reported to have deserted, date not shown. No later records found.

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