Name: John McCutchan Meek
Birth Place: Augusta Co.
Date of Birth: 8/31/1840
Physical Description:
Prewar Life:
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Date of Enlistment: 4/18/1861
Place of Enlistment: Staunton
Age at Enlistment:
Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer
Conscript or Substitute:
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Rank: Pvt.
Company: E
Transfer Company:
Regiment: 5th Va. Inf.
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Promotions:
Transfers and Other Service:
Muster Sheet: Returned 02-00-1863 from being wounded at Kearneysville; retired to Invalid Corps at Staunton 03-27-1865
Captured:
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Discharge:
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Notes: See James M. Berry
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Died of Disease:
Killed in Action:
Wounded in Action: Kernstown; Kearneysville 10-16-1862; Gettysburg, left arm amputated 07-03-1863 - 3/23/1862
Hospital: Hosp. at Winchester 01-00-1861 to 02-00-1862; DeCamp Hospital David's Island, N. Y. Harbor, after capture at Gettysburg
Died of Wounds:
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Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney
Family Number from 1860 census: (Click on number to see the 1860 census record)
Dwelling Number from 1860 census: (Click on number to see the 1860 census record)
Postwar Life: 1870 Census, Farmhand, age 26 [sic], Riverheads District, Augusta Co.
obituary states he was a sharpshooter
Death Place: near Middlebrook
Date of Death: 4/6/1896
Cause of Death:
Burial Place: Old Providence Association Reform Presbyterian Church Cemetery Spottswood
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