Soldiers Records

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Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War, Virginia Center for Digital History, University of Virginia
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Personal Information Enlistment Records

Name: James Wesley Spitler

Birth Place: Augusta Co.

Date of Birth: 8/31/1840

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Prewar Life:

Date of Enlistment: 4/17/1861

Place of Enlistment: Staunton

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Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer

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Service Information Military Service Record

Rank: Sgt.

Company: C

Transfer Company:

Regiment: 5th Va. Inf.

Promotions: Appointed Sgt. 04-27-1863; reduced to Pvt. by end of 00-00-1863

Transfers and Other Service:Enl. 04-26-1862 Churchville as Pvt. Co. I 14th Regt. Va. Cav.; Musician 14th Cav.

Muster Sheet: Sick leave in Augusta Co. 12-00-1861

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Paroled: 5/19/1865

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Hospital: Chronic diarrhea, hosp. at Petersburg, admitted 04-05-1865, listed as Musician 14th Cav.

Died of Wounds:

Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney

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Postwar Life: 1870 Census, Hardware Merchant, age 33, Staunton. Florida pension application 1884 obituary states he was a sharpshooter

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