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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:1871).
Personal Information | Enlistment Records |
Name: Joseph F. Tannehill Birth Place: Culpeper Co. Date of Birth: 8/31/1840 Physical Description: Prewar Life:Came to Staunton 1832; 1860 Census, Master Mechanic, age 32, Staunton |
Date of Enlistment: 4/17/1861 Place of Enlistment: Staunton Age at Enlistment: Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer Conscript or Substitute: |
Service Information | Military Service Record |
Rank: Pvt. Company: I Transfer Company: Regiment: 5th Va. Inf. |
Promotions: Transfers and Other Service:Detailed for duty with QM Department Staunton as Wagonmaker 00-00-1861 to 00-00-1865 as Superintendent of Confederate Machine Shops and Foundry Muster Sheet: Captured: Missing In Action: Prison: AWOL: Deserted: Discharge: Paroled: // Notes: |
Wounded/Killed Information | Other Information |
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: 426 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Dwelling Number from 1860 census: 376 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Postwar Life: 1870 Census, Nurseryman, age 40, Staunton. Farmer and ice manufacturer
obituary states he was a sharpshooter Death Place: near Staunton age 80 Date of Death: 2/1/1906 Cause of Death: Burial Place: Thornrose Cemetery Epitaph: |