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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:1731).
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Name: John Prince Smiley Birth Place: Augusta Co. Date of Birth: 8/31/1840 Physical Description: Prewar Life:1860 Census, Student, age 16, 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: Returned to duty 12-00-1863 from being wounded at Gettysburg Captured: Missing In Action: Prison: AWOL: Deserted: Discharge: Paroled: 5/16/1865 Notes: At Gettysburg his tin cup and haversack saving his life as the ball went through both before entering the hip; at Petersburg he was blown out of the entrenchments by the bursting of a shell which struck him on the left hip. |
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Died of Disease: Killed in Action: Wounded in Action: Gettysburg, foot and hip; Wilderness, hand 05-05-1864; Petersburg 04-02-1865 - 7/3/1863 Hospital: Wounded, Chimborazo Hospital Richmond, after Petersburg Died of Wounds: |
Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney Family Number from 1860 census: 1290 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Dwelling Number from 1860 census: 1301 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Postwar Life: 1870 Census, Farmer, age 28, Riverheads District, Augusta Co. Membership application for Stonewall Jackson Camp No. 25 C. V. Staunton 08-24-04; farmed after the war and lived at Middlebrook; fond of fox hunting and kept a fine pack of hounds
obituary states he was a sharpshooter Death Place: Near Middlebrook Date of Death: 9/4/1913 Cause of Death: Burial Place: Old Providence Presbyterian Church Cemetery Epitaph: |