Michael Sherrill Julian (Ca. Great Register of Voters 1871, 1892, 1896 shows his middle name as 'Sherrill') Bailey and Melia J Julian were noted as his parents as noted in 1860 census roll from birthplace as Forsyth GA.

He was a Sgt. with Company D, (this is correct from a CW data site) 2nd North Carolina Infantry, Confederate States Army. He was reported to have been captured by Union forces at Gettysburg on July 3, 1863.

Also he was a Sgt. with the Company E, 21st Regiment of Georgia Infantry, Confederate Army. His service with the Confederacy is kind of muddy and this is what I found in the Civil War data base and can confirm none of it:

Enlisted on 7/22/1861 at Forsyth County, GA as a 1st Sergeant
he mustered into "D" Co. NC 2nd Infantry

He was transferred out on 4/11/1864, On 4/11/1864 he transferred into "2nd Co. E" Co. GA 21st Infantry (Date and method of discharge not given)

He was listed as:
* POW 2/8/1862 Roanoke Island, NC
* Paroled 2/21/1862 Elizabeth City, NC
Listed as POW 7/3/1863 Gettysburg, PA
* Confined 7/5/1863 Fort McHenry, MD (Estimated day)
* Transferred 7/9/1863 Fort Delaware, DE
* Transferred 10/18/1863 Point Lookout, MD
* Absent 10/20/1863 (place not stated) (Estimated day, in confinement)

After this it gets somewhat muddled.. But he migrated to California.

In 1869 his cousin Drue Bailey and Mike founded the mountain town of Julian in San Diego County after discovering gold there. He named it after Michael because he was better looking. Michael became a San Diego County Assessor in the 1870s. The 1870 census roll of San Diego County CA 1870 Julian, San Diego, Ca. roll M593-78, page 470A image 126 line 8 (this also shows that he did live in the city named after him) and it lists his residence as Julian CA.

He later moved north up the coast to Long Beach CA and worked as a ranch hand mule skinner employed by the Bixbys. He moved on and reportedly owned a hotel-rooming house on the north side of Broadway Avenue opposite of Lincoln Park, He sold it in 1899. The 1900 Census rolls confirms his birthplace as Georgia.

The rooming house stood till the 1960s when it was removed for 'urban renewal.' I remember seeing it a number of times traveling thru town on my way to my job at Long Beach Naval Shipyard in the early 1960s. I had no idea of it's historical significance back then.