Card 1
4th Sergeant, 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: 33

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: x
Remarks: Sick at Monterey

x Name appears in Column of Names Present

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: 
To what time: 

Present or absent: Present
Remarks: 

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: 
To what time: 

Present or absent: 
Remarks: Deserted June 15

Card 6

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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No. 1
Paid August 2 1862
Alfred Slaughter
Private in Co. I. 37th Va. Regt.
From 31st Decr 1861 to 2nd August 1862
Amt: $124.22

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I CERTIFY, That the within named Alfred Slaughter, a private of Captain T. J. Smiths Company (I) of the 37th Regiment of Va vols, born in Floyd Co., in the State of Virginia, aged 37 years, 5 feet, ten 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 Slaughter was last paid by Capt. Haller to include the 31st day of Dec., 1861 and has pay due from that date to the present date.

[Remainder of pay voucher. $124.22. Signed by name.]