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Re: Muster Roll remark: Please explain

Thanks again George. I've reread an article from the Mississippi Historical Society Volume VII, called "Yazoo County In The Civil War" by Robert Bowman. He reports the first and only military unit organizing in Yazoo during March 1861, was S.M. Phillips' company that became Co K of the 10th MS Regiment. So taking the enlistment date of March 25, 1861, this individual must have originally enlisted into this unit, the Yazoo Minute Rifles. It seems to have spent its first year in FL.

The 10th MS Regiment was reorganized at Corinth in March 1862. Perhaps this individual transferred or re-enlisted into the 46th MS Inf. during this reorganization, and went to Vicksburg. He appears to have transferred into Wood's Regiment in the summer of 1862, and transferred out at the end of February 1863. And he shows up as a parole with the 46th at Vicksburg for July 4th.

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