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SOURCE:  Compiled (Confederate) Service Records, NARS Microcopy #267, Roll #306—researched and copied April 4, 1997, by Patrick McCawley, State Archivist II, South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 1430 Senate Street, Columbia, S. C. 29211

 

Levin Jones (age 22) enlisted as a Private on December 17, 1861, at Abbeville, South Carolina, for 12 months’ service in the Confederate States of America Army.  Mustered into the volunteer infantry company of “Col. Jones, S. C. M.”  On December 30, 1861, he was mustered in as a Private in Captain H. Robinson’s Company D, 19th Regiment, South Carolina Infantry.

 

Levin Jones—Private, Co. I, 19th Reg’t S. C. Inf.

                       Company Muster Roll for March & April, 1862

                       Enlisted:  December 30, 1861, at Camp Hampton [Columbia, S. C.]

                       by Col. J. S. Preston for 12 mo.

 

Levin Jones—Private, Co. I, 19th Reg’t S. C. Inf.

                       Company Muster Roll for May & June, 1862

                       Enlisted:  December 30, 1861, at Camp Hampton

                       by Col. J. S. Preston for 12 mo.

                       Remarks:  Paid [June 30, 1862, by H. T. Massingale—see following entry]

                       on Descriptive List at Atlanta, GA.

 

Separate entry:  Voucher No. 5 from The Confederate States to Levin Jones of Hugh Robinson’s Company I, 19th Regiment of S. C. Vol. [Army] — Pay from 1st of March, 1862, to 1st of July, 1862….at 11 dollars per month:  $44.00.

 

Paid by H. T. Massingale, Paymaster, Confederate States Army, this 16 day of Aug., 1862, Forty-Four dollars.

 

                                                                             [Signed in Duplicate]

                                                                                      Levin Jones

 

I certify that I have endorsed this payment on descriptive List of Leven Jones.

                                                                               Hugh Robinson, Capt. Com.dg. Co.

                                                                                H. T. Massingale

                                                                                 Capt. __________ {Cannot read signature}

 

Levin Jones —Private, Co. I, 19th Reg’t S. C. Inf.

                        Company Muster Roll for July & August, 1862

                        Enlisted:  Dec. 30, 1861, at Camp Hampton

                         by J. S. Preston for 12 mo.

                        Last paid by J. H. Jones to June 30, 1862

 

Levin Jones—Private, Co. I, 19th Reg’t S. C. Inf.

                       Company Muster Roll for Nov. & Dec., 1862

                        Enlisted:  Dec. 30, 1861, at Camp Hampton

                        by Col. J. S. Preston for 12 mo.

                        Last paid by J. H. Jones to Aug. 31, 1862

                        Remarks:  Absent—Sick and sent to the rear

 

Levin Jones—Private, Co. I, 19th Reg’t S. C. Inf.

                       Company Muster Roll for Jan. & Feb., 1863

                        Enlisted:  Dec. 30, 1861, at Columbia, S. C.

                        by Co. J. S. Preston for 12 mo.

                        Last paid by J. H. Jones to Aug. 31, 1862

                        Remarks:  Absent — Sent to the Hospital 6 days Feb’y 1863

 

Levin Jones—Private, Co. I, 19th Reg’t S. C. Inf.

                       Company Muster Roll for March & April, 1863

                        Enlisted:  Dec. 30, 1861, at Columbia, S. C.

                        by Col. J. S. Preston for 12 mo.

                        Last paid Atlanta, Ga., to Feb. 28, 1863

 

Levin Jones—Private, Co. I, 19th Reg’t S. C. Inf.

                      Company Muster Roll for July & Aug., 1863

                       Enlisted:  Dec. 30, 1861, at Columbia, S. C.

                       by Col. J. S. Preston for 12 mo.

                       Last paid by Maj. Peyton to June 30, 1863.

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