Soldiers Records

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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:1391).

Personal Information Enlistment Records

Name: Lewis Alexander Moran

Birth Place: Augusta Co.

Date of Birth: 8/31/1840

Physical Description:

Prewar Life:1860 Census, Student, age 19, 7th District, Rockbridge Co.

Date of Enlistment: 5/29/1861

Place of Enlistment: Greenville

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Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer

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Service Information Military Service Record

Rank:

Company: E

Transfer Company:

Regiment: 5th Va. Inf.

Promotions:

Transfers and Other Service:Detailed to pioneer corps under Lt. Cocksville 12-20-1862 to 02-06-1863 entrenching at Buckner's Neck and Hamilton's Crossing; detailed in pioneer corps to 02-00-1864, 11-15-1864; transf. to Co. H 10-31-1864 and to Co. E 11-10-1864

Muster Sheet: Sick leave 08-00-1861 to 10-00-1861; returned 12-00-1862 from being wounded at Manassas; present on detail 12-20-1862 to 02-06-1863

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Wounded/Killed Information Other Information

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Killed in Action:

Wounded in Action: Winchester; Manassas 08-28-1862 - 5/25/1862

Hospital: Sick, hosp. at Martinsburg 06-00-1861

Died of Wounds:

Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney

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Postwar Life: Residing in Vesuvius Rockbridge Co. 1900 at age 59 obituary states he was a sharpshooter

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Date of Death: //1903

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