My great-great-grandfather, Elisha Ray, was 43 when the war started. He served in the Georgia Home Guard. His job was working in a powder mill in Augusta making cartridges. For all I can find out - that was his entire function in the war - making gun powder. He was murdered on his front porch (1864 or '65) by Yankee cavalrymen. He was trying to keep them from burning his home. They also wanted to steal the suit he was wearing - he was buried in the suit by his family.