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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:1523).
Personal Information | Enlistment Records |
Name: Morgan Propes Birth Place: Pendleton Co. now W. Va..) Date of Birth: 8/31/1840 Physical Description: Prewar Life:Moved to Augusta Co. at age 16; 1860 Census, Farmhand, age 19, Northern District, Augusta Co. |
Date of Enlistment: 3/15/1862 Place of Enlistment: Augusta Co. Age at Enlistment: Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer Conscript or Substitute: |
Service Information | Military Service Record |
Rank: Pvt. Company: F Transfer Company: Regiment: 5th Va. Inf. |
Promotions: Transfers and Other Service: Muster Sheet: Returned by 12-00-1863 from being wounded at Gettysburg Captured: Missing In Action: Prison: AWOL: Deserted: Discharge: Paroled: 6/14/1865 Notes: |
Wounded/Killed Information | Other Information |
Died of Disease: Killed in Action: Wounded in Action: Gettysburg, severely in shoulder and side - 7/3/1863 Hospital: U. S. hosp. at N. Y. Harbor, after capture Died of Wounds: |
Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney Family Number from 1860 census: 972 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Dwelling Number from 1860 census: 967 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Postwar Life: Laborer in West Augusta 1907 on pension application
obituary states he was a sharpshooter Death Place: Date of Death: // Cause of Death: Burial Place: Epitaph: |