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Re: 1st Regiment, Confederate Engineer Troops

Private/Laborer William M. Cash enlisted in Company A, Confederate States 1st Engineer Regiment. October 7,1863 at Calhoun, Georgia, detached as ambulance driver April 10, 1864, recorded on the Sept/Oct. 1864 muster, dated November 1, 1864*, as AWOL since August 30, 1864, this is the last muster roll existing for the company, it appears that he never returned to the regiment as he is not recorded along with others of his company/regiment on the roll of those paroled at Appomattox April 9, 1865

* Record of Events for this muster records: "The Company has been constantly engaged for the first two months mining and counter mining in the vicinity of Petersburg, Virginia,"

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Company Muster Roll for April 30 to August 31, 1864, dated September 1864, stationed at Petersburg, Va.

Record of Events

Early in May the company marched to Orange Court House, Virginia where it was kept on Provost Guard duty until the interruptions on the Va., C. R. R. when it was ordered to Beaver Dam Station & went thence to Guinea's [?] Station on R. F. & P. R. R. From this place it marched to Stanards Mill on the Po River where it was kept in hastily made trenches for several days assisting the Cavalry in keeping back the enemy while the main army was moving from Spotsylvania Court House to the Chickahominey. The company was engaged in various places repairing roads, bridges & constructing fortifications.

M258: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations Raised Directly by the Confederate Government.

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Pvt. James M. Fraser, Co. H, mustered in January 1, 1864, 1st Confederate Engineers was wounded and taken prisoner at Farmville, Va. April 7, 1865

Sources used by Historical Data Systems, Inc.:
- Soldiers of Florida in the ...Civil War...
- Biographical Rosters of Florida's Soldiers 1861-1865

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These Record of Events statements of the regiment will be found in Broadfoot's multi-volumn Supplement to the Official Records, available in many large city and University libraries.

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