Scott Drew
Provost Duty, Camp Wright, Macon GA
Tue Jun 19 20:27:34 2001


An indirect ancestor, Benjamin Jasper Newton, Pvt. Co K, 17th Alabama Infantry also appears on a muster roll of Co D, 1st Regiment Troops and Defences, Nov & Dec 1864, at Camp Wright, Macon, GA. Listed as "Absent" with remark: "Provost duty, (then a word that looks like): "Atlanta". (But that just can't be right). Anyway: What encompassed "Provost Duty". How and why were certain soldiers selected? Lastly: What was the "1st Regiment Troops and Defences"?