Pvt. Archer Avary Sr, Co. A, Cavalry, Cobb's Legion. After the War, he attended the Southern Medical College and became a physician. He did post-graduate work at the Universities of Bavaria and Vienna. He was president of the American Cancer Society in 1908.
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Archer Avary
Enlisted as a Private
"A" Co. GA 10th St Guard Cavalry
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- Index to Compiled Confederate Military Service Records
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Archer Avary, Private, Captain Candler’s Company of Cavalry, Floyd’s Regiment, (Local Defense) Georgia,* enlisted August 3, 1863 at Decatur, Ga. for 6 months, mustered out February 2, 1864
* This company subsequently became Company A, 10th Regiment Georgia State Guards
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A. Avery [sic], Private, Company A, Cobb’s Legion Georgia Cavalry, enlisted October 1, 1864 at Augusta, Ga by Capt. Archer for the war, paroled at Greensboro, N. C., May 1, 1865*
* His name appears on a Muster Roll
of Officers and Men paroled in accordance with the terms of a
Military Convention entered into on the 26th day of April,
1865, between General Joseph E. Johnston, Commanding
Confederate Army, and Major General W. T. Sherman,
Commanding United States Army in North Carolina.
Roll dated Greensboro, N. C., April 30, 1865
Paroled at Greensboro, N. C., May 1, 1865
Note, This actual document should be located at the National
Archives in Washington, D. C.
I do not know if each individual actually signed and
received a personal copy. If so, he would have retained.
It may or may not have survived his death.
During their period of actual service, soldiers discharged
received Certificates of Discharges, the original copies and
those for individual soldiers may, or may not have
survived to be filed in these Compiled Service Records
At war's end, Confederate units disbanded and all command structure was lost including paper work.
M266: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia