Gaining access to appropriate Civil War records for this and adjacent counties has always been difficult–often impossible.

This collection of military records includes rosters and muster rolls for virtually all of the units formed in Murray County as well as units from Fannin, Gilmer, Gordon, and Whitfield.

Men often enlisted with friends and relatives counties other than the one in which they lived. The availability of all of these records in this museum should make it much easier to check an individual's military service.

Users of these records should realize that the rosters list the names of men in the unit on the day the roster was prepared. Some might have been in the unit before or after that date without their names appearing on the list at hand. Some of these units had men enlisting, being transferred to other units, being discharged, etc., for 4 years, creating frequent changes in personnel.

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