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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:1723).
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Name: William Henry Harrison Sillings Birth Place: Near Staunton Date of Birth: 8/31/1840 Physical Description: Prewar Life:1860 Census, Laborer, age 19, Northern 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:Enl. Co. C 14th Va. Cav. Churchville 05-15-1862; detailed at Staunton 09-23-1863 to 10-00-1864 Muster Sheet: Absent sick; dropped as a deserter 12-00-1862; present 09-00-1862 to 02-00-1863; returned to Co. D, 5th Va. Inf. from desertion; at Camp Lee 02-28-1865; sent on 30-day furlough 03-02-1865 from Richmond hosp. Captured: Missing In Action: Prison: AWOL: Deserted: Discharge: Paroled: 5/1/1865 Notes: |
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Died of Disease: Killed in Action: Wounded in Action: - // Hospital: Died of Wounds: |
Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney Family Number from 1860 census: 1035 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Dwelling Number from 1860 census: 1030 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Postwar Life:
obituary states he was a sharpshooter Death Place: Augusta Co. Date of Death: 6/10/1865 Cause of Death: Burial Place: Shutterlee Mill Cemetery Epitaph: |