Posted on: Jackson County, WV Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/Jackson/1831 Surname: PARSONS ------------------------- This indicates only that he was in the County Home Guards and NOT a member of any volunteer regiment; The Home Guards were organized as a militia for the protection of the citizens properties during peacetime as well as wartime by the States and independent of any regular unit. The Hunter in parenthesis indicates that he served in the Home Guards under Captain Hunter. Many members of these units, however, ended up mustering into regular regiments, either union or confederate.