Tom --

Company "K", 2nd Georgia Cavalry (State Guards), was called the "Chattahoochee Guards". This is not the same as the 2nd Georgia Cavalry Regiment, a Confederate organization. The "Chattahoochee Guards" was a six-month company that served near LaGrange and West Point GA. It never entered Confederate service, and neither did William Y Mooty. The only other Civil War record lists Mooty as 2nd Lieutenant of the 37th Georgia Militia Regt., post of West Point GA, January 1865.

Doubtless Mooty spent almost every night at home during the war. Why his young wife would ever imagine being enrolled is beyond me.

Officers of the local service company, William Cato and William J Ringer, are on the 1860 census within a few households of Mooty and his parents.