Name: Thomas Smith Spitler
Birth Place: Augusta Co.
Date of Birth: 8/31/1840
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Date of Enlistment: 4/29/1861
Place of Enlistment: West View
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Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer
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Rank: Pvt.
Company: F
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Regiment: 5th Va. Inf.
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Transfers and Other Service:Detailed 04-27-1864 by S. O. No. 115; signed as Lt. commanding post guard Marion Smythe Co. 10-04-1864
Muster Sheet: Transf. to Lynchburg 05-13-1863; returned to Co. 06-00-1863 after being wounded at Chancellorsville; returned 02-00-1864 from being wounded at Bealton Station
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Paroled: 5/17/1865
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Wounded in Action: Chancellorsville; Bealton Station 10-26-1863 - 5/3/1863
Hospital: Wounded, hosp. at Richmond 05-09-1863
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Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney
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Postwar Life: 1870 Census, Farmer, age 42, Pastures District
obituary states he was a sharpshooter
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