lelliott19, I found some more info on my G2 Grandfather Joel Newton Bird, This came from a 1907 Census of Confederate Veterans, Montgomery County, Alabama Genealogy Trails. It said he first entered service as a PVT in July 1861 at Athens, GA in Company D, 16th GA Infantry and continued until Sept 1864 then he was commissioned as First Lieutenant in Oct 1864 in the Derroughs Battalion Cavalry and continued until paroled in Athens, GA after the close of the War. Do you know anything about this later unit?