As mentioned earlier, the report for the post of West Point GA lists the name incorrectly as W T Mooty. Anyone with the last name Mooty and first initial W should get your attention.

The collections which should interest you are the 1864 Georgia census for reorganizing the militia, Georgia Civil War Correspondence, 1861-65, and Georgia Civil War Correspondence, 1847-1865. These are made available by Ancestry. I've spent much of the last two days reviewing these for Troup County and found much of interest, including items about Troup County ancestors which had not come to my attention earlier.

As mentioned in my earlier post, militia regiments were organized on the basis of Senatorial Districts. The 37th District included the counties of Carroll, Heard and Troup. The militia was reorganized shortly after the State Guards disbanded in the first few weeks of 1864. The militia census carefully records specifics about every man available for service under Georgia State law. Wm Y Mooty is not listed.

When the new militia companies organized, they submitted notice to Governor Brown. These six companies forwarded notice to Governor Brown during May 1864:

1st Company, Heard Co
James M Pennington, Capt
Wm S Johnston, 1st Lt
Bryant Johnston, 2nd Lt
James S Stewart, 3rd Lt

2nd Company, Heard Co
Wm R Hunter, Capt
T R Beatty, 1st Lt
A N Jones, 2nd Lt
(can't read), 3rd Lt
Lazarus B Ware, 4th Lt

3rd Company, Heard Co
S R Turner, Capt
Wm S Heard, 1st Lt

4th Company, Heard Co
John S Johnston, Capt
Green Holdenfield, 1st Lt
Thomas Spradlin, 2nd Lt
John M Darden, 3rd Lt

5th Company, Troup Co
Wm J Ringer, Capt
S G Talley, 1st Lt
Wm Y Mooty, 2nd Lt
David H Martin, 3rd Lt
Wm M Hearn, 4th Lt

6th Company, Troup Co
H M Wisdom, Capt
H R Clark, 1st Lt
G W Chunn, 2nd Lt
C W Hearn, 3rd Lt

I found no reports from Carroll County during 1864, but if other companies existed, they probably came from either Troup and/or Carroll.

Several letters and petitions found in the 1847-1865 collection come from Troup County men assigned to the 37th Georgia Militia regiment. During the summer of 1864 it had been assigned to the post of West Point. Several Troup County men (including James Mooty, a teacher) wrote Governor Brown asking to be released from militia duty. Militia members asked to have the regiment sent to some point nearer their homes.

Since officers and men were assigned to this post, it is highly unlikely they would have had an opportunity to encounter armed Federal troops prior to April 16, 1865.