J E. Townes
Enlisted as a Private
"I" Co. VA 3rd Loc Def Infantry
Organized: on 9/23/64
Mustered Out: 4/2/65
John E.Townes, age 16, enlisted in Company I, 3rd Battalion Local Defense Troops, May 31, 1864 at Richmond, Virginia, he was employed in the Medical Purveyors Office, Richmond
The 3rd (also known as Henley's and as McAnerney's) Battalion Virginia Infantry, Local Defense Troops was organized June 29, 1863, and having been increased to ten companies it was reorganized as the 3rd Regiment Virginia Infantry, Local Defense Troops by S. O. No. 226, A. & I. G. O., dated September 23, 1864
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John Townes, enlisted as a Private in Captain Richard F. Jarvis' Company, Archer's Battalion, Virginia Reserves, May 5, 1864, detailed May 25 to report to Confederate Prison on Washington
This company subsequently became Company E, 3rd (Archer's) Battalion, Virginia Reserves