Soldiers Records

From Compiled Military Service Records at National Archives

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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:1776).

Personal Information Enlistment Records

Name: Thomas Smith Spitler

Birth Place: Augusta Co.

Date of Birth: 8/31/1840

Physical Description:

Prewar Life:

Date of Enlistment: 4/29/1861

Place of Enlistment: West View

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Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer

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Service Information Military Service Record

Rank: Pvt.

Company: F

Transfer Company:

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/Killed Information Other Information

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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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