Thanks for the explanation. The place of enlistment as you described often varied during the first year of the war. I'll try to explain how that happened.

A volunteer company usually offered its services to the governor of the state, receiving a telegram in return accepting or refusing the tender of service. A company muster roll usually accompanied the tender of service. If the company was accepted, officers and men were considered enrolled and received pay from the date shown on the roll, usually the same for all original members.

When the governor accepted a company, he almost always forwarded orders for the company captain to report with his company at a particular place and time. The place was usually a rendezvous or camp where other companies were being assembled to form a regiment or battalion. When it had organized, the governor offered it to the Confederate government. The regiment or battalion then received orders from the War Department to report at some other point. Here members might be sworn into Confederate service.

As you can see, veterans might not be clear about when they actually entered Confederate service. For instance, most of the ten companies ordered to report to Col. Sydenham Moore used the assembly deadline of June 11, 1861, as their muster-in date. One or two used earlier organization dates on their rolls. However, all ten were ordered to report at Lynchburg Va. where officers and men were officially sworn into service on June 30th. Everyone sworn in on that day might consider Lynchburg Va. as their place of enlistment, even though none of them were there on June 11th. Veterans frequently recalled enlisting at Lynchburg Va., some using the date June 11, 1861, others remembering June 30th.

Consider the case of the "Cherokee Davis Guards":

Organizing at Gaylesville, Alabama, August 7, 1861, officers and men entered state service September 25, 1861. Seventy members boarded the steamer "Afarada" and traveled to Rome, Georgia, on October 7, 1861. They moved by rail to Nashville, Tennessee, arriving three days later. The company enrolled in Confederate service November 2, 1861, and mustered on the Nashville, Tennessee, fairgrounds on November 19, 1861. W. H. Farrow signed the initial roll as a flag bearer, so it seems safe to assume the company had its own flag.

Did they enroll at Gaylesville Ala., or Nashville?

In any case, most of the original members would have been from Cherokee County, in and around Gaylesville, Ala.