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I wouldn't at this stage discount the last William due to birth date. All dates are suspect and could have been incorrectly recorded.

Below is the listing of these men taken from the CW Research Database. In addition to taking information from the Compiled Service Records, they have included other sources. In these cases, the "Roster of Confederate Soldiers of Georgia 1861-1865." I would assume this is where they listed the homes of residence which is not found in the CSRs. You might want to validate this data for yourself.

The listing of companies and counties of origin I list below, are taken from the website noted. However, they appear to have been discontinued.

44th Regiment, Georgia Infantry

44th Infantry Regiment completed its organization at Camp Stephens, near Griffin, Georgia, in March, 1862. Its companies were drawn from the counties of Henry, Jasper, Clarke, Clayton, Spalding, Putnum, Fayette, Pike, Morgan, and Greene. The regiment moved to Goldsboro, North Carolina, then arrived in Virginia just after the Battle of Seven Pines. It served in General Ripley's, Doles', and Cook's Brigade, and fought with the Army of Northern Virginia from the Seven Days' Battles to Cold Harbor. The 44th continued the fight in the Shenandoah Valley and ended the war at Appomattox. It lost sixty-four percent of the 524 engaged at Mechanicsville and forty-six percent of the 142 at Malvern Hill. The regiment reported 17 killed and 65 wounded during the Maryland Campaign, sustained 121 casualties at Chancellorsville, and of the 364 at Gettysburg, twenty percent were disabled. It surrendered with 4 officers and 73 men. The field officers were Colonels John B. Estes, Samuel P. Lumpkin, William H. Peebles, and Robert A. Smith; Lieutenant Colonel James W. Beck; and Majors Joseph W. Adams, Richard O. Banks, and John C. Key.

http://44thgeorgiacompanyc.com/History.htm

ROSTERS:

Company A - Henry County - Weems Guards
Company B - Jasper County - Jasper Volunteers
Company C - Clark County - Johnson Guards
Company D - Clayton County - Estes' Guards
Company E - Spalding County - Freeman Rangers
Company F - Putnam County - Putnam Volunteers
Company G - Fayette County - Huie Guards
Company H - Pike County - Pike Volunteers
Company I - Morgan and Henry County - Morgan and Henry Volunteers
Company K - Green County - Green Volunteers

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Charles Farmer

Residence Henry County GA;
Enlisted as a Private (date unknown).
"A" Co. GA 44th Infantry

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William A. Farmer

Residence Clayton County GA;
Enlisted on 3/4/1862 as a Private.
On 3/4/1862 he mustered into "D" Co. GA 44th Infantry
(date and method of discharge not given)
He was listed as:
* Wounded 6/26/1862 Ellison's Mill, VA
* Furloughed 7/29/1864 CSA Gnl Hospl, Charlottesville, VA (60 days)

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William H. Farmer

Residence Henry County GA;
Enlisted on 3/4/1862 as a Private.
On 3/4/1862 he mustered into "A" Co. GA 44th Infantry
He was discharged for disability on 5/24/1862 at Goldsboro, NC
(Discharged, hemorrhage of lings at Camp McIntosh.)

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These documents are found in the United States Army Military History Institute, Carlisle Barracks, MD Unit Bibliographies.

44th Georgia Infantry Regiment

Browning, Judkin. "All for One Charge: The 44th Gerogia Infantry." Columbiad Vol. 1, No. 4:
(Winter 1998): pp. 21-45 (13 photocopid pages). Per.

Confederate Military History, Extended Edition. Vol. 7: Georgia. Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot,
1987. E484C65.1987v7. See p. 120 (1 photocopied page) for a brief unit history.

Crute, Joseph H., Jr. Units of the Confederate States Army. Midlothian, VA: Derwent Books,
1987. Ref. See p. 109 (1 photocopied page) for a concise summary of the regiment's service.

Georgia. State Division of Confederate Pensions and Records. Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of
Georgia, l86l-l865. Vol. 4. Hapeville, GA: Longino & Porter, 1959. pp. 726-838. E559.3G4v4.
Unit roster.

Jones, Charles E. Georgia in the War, 1861-1866. Atlanta, GA: Foot & Davies, 1909. E559.4J76.
See p. 31 (1 photocopied page) for an incomplete list of unit officers.

Sifakis, Stewart. Compendium of the Confederate Armies:...Georgia. NY: Facts on File, 1995.
pp. 256-57 (2 photocopied pages). E577S53.1

Smith, Gerald J. "The Hard-fighting 44th Georgia Suffered Some of the Heaviest Losses of Any
Regiment in the War." America's CW (Mar 1996): pp. 16, 20 & 24 (3 photocopied pages). Per.

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