If, in this case, "home guards" means Georgia Militia, the records are scanty to non-existent, but the place to look would probably be the "Militia Enrollment List as Required by the Act of December 14th, 1863" for Crisp County... and if you don't find him listed in Crisp County expand outwards to nearby counties. Typically you won't find muster rolls. Some reconstruction of fragmentary militia unit rosters can be compiled from Georgia Confederate Pension records and records left by some early precursors of the UDC, but those almost always relate to the very young members of those units still alive 40 or 50 years later, not to the elderly members such as this Louis Lanier would have been. Richard White Tallahassee, Florida [email protected] wrote: >Louis had 2 sons in the 31th reg.Lewis and James.But ols Louis i cannot >find.I was told he was in home guards. > >Debra Maddox Wilson >Greenback,Tn >
I got a lot of muster rolls from some Ga units, they may have come out of Columbus or Russell County, Al. I don't have Crisp County, I can list those I have, but it may take a while delilah evans ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard White" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 5:36 PM Subject: Re: [GEORGIA] Louis Lanier | | If, in this case, "home guards" means Georgia Militia, the records are | scanty to non-existent, but the place to look would probably be the | "Militia Enrollment List as Required by the Act of December 14th, 1863" | for Crisp County... and if you don't find him listed in Crisp County | expand outwards to nearby counties. Typically you won't find muster | rolls. Some reconstruction of fragmentary militia unit rosters can be | compiled from Georgia Confederate Pension records and records left by | some early precursors of the UDC, but those almost always relate to the | very young members of those units still alive 40 or 50 years later, not | to the elderly members such as this Louis Lanier would have been. | | Richard White | Tallahassee, Florida | | [email protected] wrote: | | >Louis had 2 sons in the 31th reg.Lewis and James.But ols Louis i cannot | >find.I was told he was in home guards. | > | >Debra Maddox Wilson | >Greenback,Tn | > | | | ------------------------------- | To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message