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Dear Robert,

Here's what I have for William Lumpkin Ray from Ancestry.Com:

Name: William Lumpkin Ray ,
Residence: Dawson County, Georgia
Enlistment Date: 04 March 1862
Distinguished Service: DISTINGUISHED SERVICE
Side Served: Confederacy
State Served: Georgia
Unit Numbers: 404 404
Service Record:
Enlisted as a Corporal on 04 March 1862 at the age of 27
Enlisted in Company I, 52nd Infantry Regiment Georgia on 04 March 1862.
Promoted to Full Sergeant 1st Class on 02 February 1863
POW on 03 July 1863 at Vicksburg, MS
Paroled on 07 July 1863 at Vicksburg, MS (Estimated day)
Promoted to Full Sergeant on 15 August 1864
Transferred Company I, 52nd Infantry Regiment Georgia on 15 August 1864
Enlisted in Company I, 11th Cavalry Regiment Georgia on 15 August 1864.
POW on 04 December 1864 at Waynesboro, GA
Released on 17 June 1865 at Point Lookout, MD

Source Information:
Historical Data Systems, comp. Military Records of Individual Civil War Soldiers. [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 1999-. Data compiled by Historical Data Systems of Kingston, MA from the following list of works.
Copyright 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 - Historical Data Systems Inc.P.O. Box 196 Kingston, MA 02364

Here are short histories of the 52nd GA Inf and 11th GA Cav:

52nd Regiment, Georgia Infantry

52nd Infantry Regiment was organized at Atlanta, Georgia, in April, 1862. Many of its members were drawn from the counties of Habersham, White, Towns, and Fannin. It took part in the Cumberland Gap operations, then moved to Kentucky and later Mississippi. Here the unit was assigned to General Barton's Brigade, Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana, and was active in the conflicts at Chickasaw Bayou and Champion's Hill. On July 4, 1863, when Vicksburg fell, it was part of the garrison that was captured. Exchanged and assigned to General Stovall's Brigade, the 52nd fought with the Army of Tennessee from Missionary Ridge to Nashville. Then on February 23, 1865, it was detailed to guard wagon trains from Columbus, Mississippi. During December, 1863, this unit totalled 279 men and 197 arms, had 123 fit for duty in November, 1864, and the few that remained surrendered on May 4, 1865. The field officers were Colonels Wier Boyd and Charles D. Phillips, Lieutenant Colonel Solomon H. Van Diviere, and Majors J.J. Findley and John J. Moore.

11th Regiment, Georgia Cavalry

11th Cavalry Regiment was organized near Athens, Georgia, in November, 1864, by consolidating the newly formed 30th Georgia Cavalry Battalion and four companies raised under the authority of the War Department where the conscript act could not be enforced. The unit was assigned to the Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, and served in M.W. Hannon's and R.H. Anderson's Brigade. It fought at Savannah, but many of the men were captured. In February, 1865, only 90 effectives were present and in April most of these were captured at Macon. Colonel Andrew Young, Lieutenant Colonel H.W. Barclay, and Major Madison Bell were its commanders.

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Jim Martin

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