I sent off to the National Archives and they sent me the five documents imaged below. The images are Jpeg so if you click on them they will enlarge so that you might view the details. Apparantly Confederate Service records were kept in a "jacket" or folder and consisted of cards filled out by officers in charge of the particular soldier. These cards were filled out whenever anything noteworthy occured. Apparantly William Armstrong didn't do anything noteworthy other than get paid. I did notice that they apparantly got paid every two months and that he was in Ramsey's Battery on June 30 1864. The index lists 4 card numbers along with a brief description of how the unit was formed. The index has a "See Also:" about 5th Battalion Hillard's Legion, Alabama Cavalry. Both the Index and the cards were pre-printed for the 10th Confederate Cavalry C.S.A. I think I stated in "Turner Tiny Tales" that William Armstrong was a little older that the average soldier and may have kept his head down and did what he was told since he enlisted as and remained a private, but he did survive a war in which 500,000 men were killed. I also noticed that he enlisted April 1, 1862. I find it interesting to see images of documents relating to a relative which were filled out in during the "War Of Northern Agression" as John refers to it.
Back to William Armstrong Turner's Page.
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| Service Index |
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| Service Cards from his "jacket" |
