This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Henry Mitchell' s relatives - Revolutionary Soldier of Jones County Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Xc.2ADI/1183 Message Board Post: Dear Raechel: See his roster, please. Muster roll of Company F, Gray Volunteers (Jones County), enlisted March 11, 1862, for the war and served under General Robert E. Lee in the Army of Northern Virginia, and surrendered on April 9, 1865, at Appomattox, Virginia, as found on page 993 of "The History of Jones County, Georgia", by Carolyn White Williams. This list was in the confederate monument in Macon, Georgia, when it was opened on removal, May 1956, and is nearly identical to the roster of Company B, 12th Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry, found on page 992 of that same volume. There are two websites about the 45th Georgia Volunteer Infantry that I have located. Private Reuben Jackson, C.S.A. is in each listing. Reuben is his name. The first website is Jones County, Georgia, Civil War Units, this page is based on work done by Glen Spurlock, the Virginia Crilley, Kurt Graham, and John Rigdon. With this website you can access information for all Civil War military units raised in Jones County, Georgia, including the 45th Georgia Volunteer Infantry. The website is: http://www.researchonline.net/gacw/county/jones.htm See Virginia Crilley is a very knowledgeable researcher. The second website is under a different name and was not so easily located. This webiste is specific only to the 45th Georgia Volunteer Infantry. The website is: http://www.spaceports.com/~oddballz/civilwar/thomas/45thgeorgia/comp_f.html There is some news from Jones County, Georgia. The Heritage and Historical Committee is re-printing Mrs. Williams book, "The History of Jones County, Georgia". It is a wonderful book, and until just recently, the only practical place for me to read a copy of it has been the library at the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, in nearby Washington, D.C. (By the way, the DAR library also has a copy of the Jones County 1850 census--there was a partial census taken, and a complete census, too. The DAR library has both). I have found the census information most helpful--it is the way you look at it that makes it so very helpful. "The History of Jones County, Georgia" is available through the Jones County Chamber of Commerce in Gray, Georgia, for a modest price of $60.00. They are now taking orders for this book. After March 1, 2003, the cost of the book (1100 pages) will be $75.00, and it is my understanding that it will only be available to June. It is very rare to find the Mitchells in the history books. Now, there are some sentimental reasons for me to buy this book. Exciting news was that documentarian Ken Burns was at Pentagon City Mall, in nearby Arlington, Virginia, on December 7th of this year. His great work, the "Civil War" is now available on DVD. May I ask if you are related to William Jackson of Jones County, Georgia? The reason I am asking you this question is that (and maybe this will be helpful) the Confederate Widow's Pension Claim of my great, great grandmother, Lucinda Christian Mitchell, widowed spouse of Warren Anderson Mitchell, C.S.A., includes the names of the requisite Three Witnesses: William Jackson; Uriah Mitchell (great, great granduncle); and B.F. Finney. I located Lucinda's Confederate Widow's Pension Claim at the Historical and Genealogical Room, Washington Memorial Library, in Macon, Georgia. Macon has great historical information and the research fee is modest. Hope this information is helpful to the Jackson family. Do write back please. That Reuben is in the roster is the answer to your question. You have seen his mother's relatives. Most peacefully, Terri Anne Hastings Average e-mail is o.k.: purchaseorders@yahoo.com