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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:1853).
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Name: Bolling Robertson Swoope Birth Place: Augusta Co. Date of Birth: 8/31/1840 Physical Description: Prewar Life:1860 Census, Student, age 17, 1st District, Augusta Co. |
Date of Enlistment: 3/17/1862 Place of Enlistment: Staunton Age at Enlistment: Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer Conscript or Substitute: |
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Rank: Pvt. Company: L Transfer Company: Regiment: 5th Va. Inf. |
Promotions: Transfers and Other Service:Detached to QM Department Staunton 00-00-1862; conscripted and enrolled at Camp Lee Richmond 01-31-1864; assigned to Co. A 19th Regt. Va. Cav. 03-18-1864; transf. 04-01-1864 in Capt. Warren S. Lurty's Bty. Va. Horse Arty. Muster Sheet: Captured: Missing In Action: Prison: AWOL: Deserted: Discharge: Paroled: 5/23/1865 Notes: |
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Died of Disease: Killed in Action: Wounded in Action: - // Hospital: Died of Wounds: |
Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney Family Number from 1860 census: 1748 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Dwelling Number from 1860 census: 1803 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Postwar Life: 1870 Census, Farmer, age 28, Pastures District, Augusta Co. Railroad Superintendent of South Florida Railroad and orange plantation owner
obituary states he was a sharpshooter Death Place: Waynesboro Date of Death: 9/25/1913 Cause of Death: Burial Place: Riverview Cemetery Epitaph: |