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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:1613).
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Name: William Harrison Rosen Birth Place: Augusta Co. Date of Birth: 8/31/1840 Physical Description: Prewar Life:1860 Census, Farmer, age 29, 1st District, Augusta Co. |
Date of Enlistment: 3/21/1862 Place of Enlistment: Meem's Bottom Age at Enlistment: Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer Conscript or Substitute: |
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Rank: Pvt. Company: D Transfer Company: Regiment: 5th Va. Inf. |
Promotions: Transfers and Other Service: Muster Sheet: Dropped from rolls; returned to Co. 10-00-1863 from desertion; furloughed 10-17-1864 Captured: Missing In Action: Prison: AWOL: Deserted: Discharge: Paroled: // Notes: Absence at first desertion because of tragedies at home in 00-00-62 as in the deaths from illness of his wife, three children, his father and mother, and his brother |
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Died of Disease: Killed in Action: Wounded in Action: Spotsylvania Courthouse - 5/12/1864 Hospital: Admitted to Chimborazo Hospital No. 8 10-07-1864 Died of Wounds: |
Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney Family Number from 1860 census: 917 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Dwelling Number from 1860 census: 907 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Postwar Life: Received Southern Cross of Honor
obituary states he was a sharpshooter Death Place: Craigsville Date of Death: 7/2/1901 Cause of Death: Burial Place: Craigsville Cemetery Augusta Co. Epitaph: |