Tuckahoe's Collection of Sherrill Documents

ISAIAH SHERRELL - VOLUNTEER ENLISTMENT - 07 FEBRUARY 1865

STATE OF INDIANA, TOWN OF COLUMBUS

I, ISIAH SHERELL, born in _______, the State of Tennessee, aged Eighteen years, by occupation a farmer, DO HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGE to have volunteered this Seventh day of _______, 1865, ... serve as a SOLDIER in the ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, for ... period of ONE YEAR, unless sooner discharged by proper authority: ... also agree to accept such bounty, pay, rations, and clothing, as are, or may be, established by law for volunteers. And I, ISIAH SHERELL, do solemnly swear, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, and that I will serve them honestly and faithfully against all their enemies or opposers whomsoever; and that I will observe and obey the orders of the President of the United States, and the orders of the officers appointed over ..., according to the Rules and Articles of War.

.......n and subscribed to, at Columbus, Ind.)

ISIAH (his X mark) SHERRELL

........this_______day of Feb, 1865)

........ore Wm. T. Dougherty)

Recruiting Officer

I CERTIFY, ON HONOR, That I have carefully examined the above-named Volunteer, agreeably ...., General Regulations of the Army, and that, in my opinion, he is free from all bodily defects and ....l infirmity, which would in any way disqualify him from performing the duties of a soldier.

A. G. Collier, Examining Surgeon.

I CERTIFY, ON HONOR, That I have minutely inspected the Volunteer ISIAH SHERRELL .....ously to his enlistment, and that he was entirely sober when enlisted; that to the best of my ....ment and belief, he is of lawful age; and that, in accepting him as duly qualified to perform the .....s of an able-bodied soldier. I have strictly observed the Regulations which govern the recruiting .....ce. This soldier has Hazel eyes, Dark hair, Dark complexion, is 5' 8 inches high. (...?)

Wm. T. Dougherty, Recruiting Officer
145 Regiment of Ind. Volunteers

Certificate for the Signature of the Mustering Officer, Commissary, or Assistant Commissary of Musters, as the case may be.

Mustered into the service of the United States, for one year, from date of emlistment, in Co. 145, Regiment of Ind. Volunteers, on the 7 day of Feb., 1865, at Columbus (???) and credited to______Ward, (or Sub-district,) in the Town of_______, in the County of_______,_________th Congressional District, in the State of_____________.

Bounty paid at time of Muster-in:_________S. S. Consefer (?)__________ U. S. Bounty,____________Capt. J. Geo Marsh___________ Local Bounty,____________O Dist Ind_________________

Researched by: Elsie SHERRELL Goodyear.