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Name: John J. Straughan
Birth Place: Spotsylvania Co.
Date of Birth: 8/31/1840
Physical Description:
Prewar Life:
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Date of Enlistment: 3/5/1862
Place of Enlistment: Staunton
Age at Enlistment:
Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer
Conscript or Substitute:
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Rank: Pvt.
Company: G
Transfer Company:
Regiment: 5th Va. Inf.
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Promotions:
Transfers and Other Service:Staunton Arty.; Enl. Crenshaw's Bty. 12-11-1862 Summit Point without authority; detailed as ambulance driver 07-00-1863; returned to Co. G 5th Va. Inf. 02-29-1864; transf. to Co. H 10-31-1864
Muster Sheet:
Captured:
Missing In Action:
Prison:
AWOL:
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Discharge:
Paroled: 5/10/1865
Notes: Surrendered Appomattox Courthouse 04-09-65
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Died of Disease:
Killed in Action:
Wounded in Action: - //
Hospital: Consumption, hosp. at Staunton 08-00-1863
Died of Wounds:
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Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney
Family Number from 1860 census: (Click on number to see the 1860 census record)
Dwelling Number from 1860 census: (Click on number to see the 1860 census record)
Postwar Life: Editor of Highland Record
obituary states he was a sharpshooter
Death Place: Monterey age 48
Date of Death: 7/5/1889
Cause of Death:
Burial Place: Thornrose Cemetery Staunton
Epitaph:
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