Which Poythress men fought in 1800s wars, and where did they come from?

Research question: Which Poythress men served in the Civil War or other 1800s conflicts, and what do the surviving unit lists say about where they came from?

The records name several Poythress men in Confederate units: Thomas M. Poythress in the 2nd Regiment, Virginia Artillery ², John Louis Poythress in Co. F of the 14th Virginia Infantry from May 1861 through October 1864 ³, and Wm. L. Poythress in the 44th Battalion, Virginia Infantry, which the record names as the Petersburg City Battalion ⁵. Other entries include L.Y. Poythress in Scott's Company, Virginia Local Defense, identified as Company A of the Greensville County Home Guard ⁷, J.A. Poythress in Bickham's Company, Louisiana (Caddo Militia), which points to a Louisiana origin ⁸, and Daniel W., Isaac, John and William E. Poythress in the 25th Regiment, Georgia Infantry, pointing to a Georgia origin ⁹. A 1902 Virginia Confederate pension index lists Mecklenburg County (Va.) as the geographic subject for W. L. Poythress, though that is a pension record rather than a unit list ⁴. The 18th North Carolina history describes local company origins in five southeastern counties, but it does not name any Poythress man ¹. The evidence only partly answers the question, since most men have no stated home county, and the newest dated source is the 1992 regimental history ¹.

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