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[Card 1]
Wm. Holderfield
Pvt.  [with] Capt. S.B. Cornutt's Company Virginia Volunteers*
Appears on Bounty Pay and Receipt Roll of organization named above.
Roll dated Abingdon, Va. May 1, 1862.
Enlisted:
When:  April 6, 1862
Where:  Camp Moc. Gap
By whom: Genl. H. Marshall
Period:  3 yrs. or War
Bounty, $50.--
                        his
Signature  Wm  X  Holderfield
                      mark
[No Remarks]
*This company subsequently became Company C, 63rd Regiment VirginiaInfantry.

[Card 2]
Wm Holderfield
Pvt, Co. C, 63rd Reg't Virginia Inf.
Appears on Company Muster Roll of the organization named above,
for May & June, 1863.
Dated July
Enlisted:  April 6, 1862, Moc. Gap, by Genl. Marshall, 3 yrs. war.
Last paid: by Capt A. F. Henderson
To what time: May 1, 1863
Present or Absent:  Present
[No remarks]

[Card 3]
[same company]
Company Muster Roll for Sept. & Oct., 1863.
Not dated.
[same information]
Last paid by Capt. Henderson
Remarks:  Deserted Sept.15, 1863. Not dropped from the Roll.

[Card 4]
[same company]
Company Muster Roll for Jany & Feby, 1864
Dated Mch. 5, 1864
[same information]
Last paid by Capt. A.F. Henderson to July 1, 1863.
Present or Absent:  Present

[Card 5]
Wm. Holderfield Co. C 63 Va, Regt.(Inf.)
Appears on a RECEIPT ROLL for clothing for 1 Qr., 1864
Date of issue Mar. 7, 1864

[Card 6]
[same company]
Company Muster Roll for May & June, 1864
Dated July 18, 1864
Last paid by Capt. Henderson to July 1, 1863.
Remarks:  Deserted June 26, 1864 near Marietta [This would be Marietta, Georgia
near Atlanta where his company was at that time.]

[Card 7]
Wm Holyfield
Pvt  63 Regt Va Inf.
Appears on a Register of Prisoners of War received at Military Prison,
Louisville KY.
Where captured Green County VA  [This has to be a mistake.  His regiment was no
where near this area.  He was probably captured in Greene County, Tennesee.  That
is the Greene County that   would have been between Marietta, GA and his home in
Virginia. He could have been on his way home at the time he was captured.]
Discharged:  Terms--Oath   July, 1864

[Card 8]
William R Holyfield  (Signs by mark)
Pvt. 63 Regt. Va. Inf.
Name appears as signature to an Oath of Allegiance to the United States, subscribed
and sworn to at Chattanooga, Tenn., the day and year set opposite the several names.
Place of residence Grayson Co VA
Complexion Dark;  hair Dark;  eyes Blue;  height 5 ft. 10 in
July 16, 1864

[Card 9]
Wm Holilefield* [difficult to read]
[same company]
Name appears as signature to an Oath of Allegiance to the United States, subscribed
and sworn to at Louisville, July 27, 1864**
Place of residence Gra??? Co , VA   [probably Grayson: William Holderfield lived in
Grayson County Virginia both before and after the war...1860 and 1870 Federal
Census; and card #8 clearly shows Grayson Co VA]
Complexion DK; hair DK
Eyes Blue;  height 5 ft. 10 in.
*Name appears in column of names as Wm Holyfield   Signs by mark

[Card 10]
W R Holyfield
Pvt 63rd  Regt Va Inf
Appears on a roll of Deserters from the Rebel Army
When received July 25, 1864.
Date when discharged  July 27, 1864.
By whose order discharged  S E Jones
Remarks:  Oath and remain North of the Ohio River during the War.
Louisville, Ky., Register No. 10; page 50
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Recommended Reading:
Desertion During the Civil War by Ella Lonn, 1879-1962
       Published originally in 1928.   Looks at reasons for desertion for both Union and
       Confederate soldiers