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more adjoining company districts, into one, reporting the consolidation made, and the numbers 
of the company district so combined, and in cities to divide districts.
SECTION XIX. Be it further enacted, that in making the enrollment provided for by this act, the 
enrolling officers shall report by name all persons having efficient guns, describing the gun, 
whether rifle, musket, or shot-gun, and those who have not; also such persons who can furnish their 
own horses, saddles and bridles, and serve as mounted men.

SECTION XXIV. And be it further enacted, that no person shall be enrolled under this Act who is 
subject to conscription under the Conscript Act or Acts of the Confederate Congress. The 
enrollment lists are filed alphabetically by county. No lists were found for the counties of Burke, 
Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Dooly, Emanuel, Irwin, Johnson, Montgomery, Pulaski or Wilcox. 
Within the counties the lists are arranged by Georgia Militia Districts in numerical order. In cases 
in which two or more districts have been combined on one sheet (to form a single militia company) 
it is arranged in numerical order by the first-named district. In many instances two copies of each 
list are included.

      Also included within each county are typed copies of the enrollment lists which were prepared 
by the Georgia Pension and Record Department between 1920 and 1940. In preparing these typed 
lists the staff of the Department often altered the spelling of names to a more conventional form, 
assuming that the enrolling officer had misspelled them. "Asque" and "Ballue", for instance, have 
been changed to 'Askew" and "Bailee. Names on the typed lists, unlike most of the originals, are 
in alphabetical order."

      The lists as offered in this book were first abstracted from the typed lists prepared by the 
Georgia Pension and Record Department. They were then checked against the handwritten original 
lists for additional genealogical information and reasons for exemptions.

      In searching for specific persons, please note the various spellings of names. The enrolling 
officer often spelled a name the way it sounded rather than the way a person actually spelled his 
name. For example, "Cochran" might be "Cockran", and, a name that should be spelled with a 
double "r", "s" or "t", may only have a single letter. In some cases, the handwriting or quality of 
the microfilm was difficult to decipher and I may have abstracted it incorrectly.

      Many of the men on these lists enlisted in Confederate service or served for six months in a 
state unit after these lists were taken. Original records of Georgia's state units are stored in the 
Georgia Department of Archives & History, and the microfilms of Confederate and state service 
records are available for researchers at that facility.

      In closing my remarks about this book, I would like to thank the staff of the Georgia 
Department of Archives & History for preserving these records and making them available to 
researchers. I would also like to thank my husband for his patience through the months it took to 
abstract and prepare the manuscript; and, last but not least, I thank my parents for instilling in me 
a love of history which guided me in the right direction.

                                                                    - Nancy J. Cornell

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Cornell, Nancy J. 1864 Census for Re-Organizing the Georgia Militia. Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 2000. Digital Images. Ancestry.com Operations Inc, https://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=3007: 2012.

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