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Thank you all for your responses to my questions concerning my great grandfather, J.C. Bishop and the 30th Battalion. Changing the subject line for this question.

J.C. Bishop states on his Application of a Disabled Soldier, Form # 4 (age 84)the following:
Where did you enter the service? Valley Virginia Woodstock
When did you enter the service? Sept. 1864
In What branch of the service were you? 45th Virginia
Who were your immediate superior officers?
Colonel (can't make out this name)
Captain Miller
There is no record of him being in the 45th Virginia Regiment.

J.C. Bishop lived and died in Floyd County, Va. My question is why would he have gone to Woodstock to enlist?
The 45th, as I understand it, was in the surrounding counties to Floyd.

I thought they enlisted where they lived.

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