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John Slidell MacKenzie COMBS Military Service

John Slidell MacKenzie COMBS
13th VA Infantry, CSA 
Military Service Highlights:

Capt. Robert White's Company (Frontier Rifles)
Company I, 13th Regiment Virginia Infantry

Age: 18 years
Occupation:  Printer
Rank at Enlistment: Corporal
Time of Enlistment: 1 year
Enrolled for active service:  18 May 1861   at: Romney, VA   by: Robert White
Mustered into service:        25 May 1861   at: Bolivar, VA  by: M. McDonald
No. of miles to place of muster-in:  98

Regiment Notes:  21 July 1861, Battle of 1st Manassas

Company Muster Roll, July + August 1861, dated 31 Aug 1861
Present/Absent:  Present.
Remarks:  Was charged $15 for loss of rifle gun on last payroll, which
          paymaster retained out of his pay and at suggestion of paymaster
          I certify that said gun was lost in this way, as he says, said
          Combs directly after being mustered into service was made
          Corporal of the Gaurd for the first time and without, as he
          alleges, having received any instructions about the gun.  When
          called out of the gaurd house for a short time he placed his gun
          in the gaurd house, from whence it was stolen during his absence,
          and he asks that said amount of $15 be refunded him.

Company Muster Roll, September + October 1861, not dated
Present/Absent:  Present.
Remarks:  Reduced to ranks, Sept. 20

Company Muster Roll, November + December 1861, dated 31 Dec 1861
Present/Absent:  Present.
Remarks:  None.

Regiment Notes:  27 June 1862, Gaines Mill
Regiment Notes:  17 Sept 1862, Antietam

Company Muster Roll, November + December 1862, not dated
Present/Absent:  Absent.
Remarks:  Absent without leave since 5 Sept 1862.  Charged with Enfield
          Rifle $50.  Accoutrements $3.50

Company Muster Roll, January + February 1863, dated 28 Feb 1863
Present/Absent:  Not listed.
Remarks:  Deserted.  Absent without leave since 5 Sept 1862.  Charged with
          Enfield Rifle $50.  Accoutrements $3.50.  $53.50  Reenlisted and 
          received $50 bounty.

Company Muster Roll, March + April 1863, not dated
Present/Absent:  Not listed.
Remarks:  Reported as a deserter last muster roll.  Reenlisted and received
          $50 bounty 18 May 1862.  Deserted 5 Sept 1862 since which date
          he drew pay in Richmond from Capt. John Maynard (unreadable),
          C.S. Army for the months of July and August 1862.  Bounty $50.
          Charged with Enfield Rifle lost $50, Accoutrements $3.50.

Company Muster Roll, May + June 1863, dated 30 June 1863
Present/Absent:  Present.
Remarks:  Deserted 5 Sept 1862 and joined General Imboden's Command.
          Was arrested and brought to Brigade under gaurd about 1 May 1863.
          Charges prepared against him for desertion, losing arms to the
          amount of $53.50, and improperly drawing $50 bounty.  Was kept
          in confinement until 10 June 1863, when he was placed on duty
          with his company without withdrawing the charges against him.

Company Muster Roll, September + October 1863, dated 1 Nov 1863
Present/Absent:  Present.
Remarks:  Balance charged against him on last muster roll $164.90.



Appears on register of Prisoners of War at Old Capitol Prison, Wash. DC
When committed:  5 Dec 1863
Where captured:  Mine Run, VA
When:            28 Nov 1863
Remarks:  Released on Oath and sent to Philadelphia, 18 March 1864 

Name appears as signature to an Oath of Amnesty, subscribed to and sworn
to at Washington, D.C., 18 March 1864.
Place of residence:  Romney, VA
Complexion:          Dark
Hair:                Light
Eyes:                Dark
Height:              5 ft 9 in.
Remarks:             None.

Regiment Notes:  05 May 1864, Wilderness

Last Update: 31 August 1997