Soldiers Records

From Compiled Military Service Records at National Archives

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Please cite results as coming from: County, , Soldiers Records
Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War, Virginia Center for Digital History, University of Virginia
(valley.lib.virginia.edu/dossier_record?q=db:dossiers_augusta AND id_num:1384).

Personal Information Enlistment Records

Name: George McCulloch Mooney

Birth Place: Augusta Co. four miles from Waynesboro

Date of Birth: 8/31/1840

Physical Description:

Prewar Life:1860 Census, Carpenter, age 22, Northern District, Augusta Co.

Date of Enlistment: 3/10/1862

Place of Enlistment: New Market

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Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer

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Service Information Military Service Record

Rank: Pvt.

Company: H

Transfer Company:

Regiment: 5th Va. Inf.

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Muster Sheet: Rejoined from desertion 02-00-1863; returned to duty by proclamation of the President, to receive pay from 02-05-1863; nine months pay deducted by order of court-martial G. O. No. 99 04-09-1863; clothing record 12-00-1864

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Paroled: 5/12/1865

Notes: In some recollections written in 1906, he mentions being in the attack at Ft. Stedman Petersburg 03-25-65 and of seeing Lee at Appomattox; he wrote nothing of being paroled there nor does his name appear among those who received paroles.

Wounded/Killed Information Other Information

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Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney

Family Number from 1860 census: 1781 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record)

Dwelling Number from 1860 census: 1776 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record)

Postwar Life: obituary states he was a sharpshooter

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Burial Place: Probably buried beside his wife in Mountain View Cemetery no marker

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