> Ooops, thought I'd corrected this. On second look, I believe the War Department copiest
> miscopied and the date of the muster should be Sept 6-1862. Then again, Capt. Sansom's
> card for this same period records the same remark, he was mustered into service July 29, 1861.
> On further thought, as his single card records him in Capt. James L. Sansom's Company, 8th
> Regiment Mississippi Vols. [This company was successively designated as Captain Sansom's Company,
> (Old) Company H, and (New) Company E, 8th Regiment Mississippi Infantry], I'm going to go with
> 1861. What do you think?

Are you saying that Newt Knight was a member of a state unit?

State units were basically home guards. However, in September 1862, after the home guard concept was exposed as a farce by Grierson's Raid, the state units were all transferred to the Confederate regular service. Given that they had no choice in the matter, it could be reasoned that Newt Knight would have seen this act as a conscription.

Doesn't this conflict with some of the other information posted though?