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:1915).

Personal Information Enlistment Records

Name: Jacob Moses Trevey

Birth Place: Rockbridge Co.

Date of Birth: 8/31/1840

Physical Description:

Prewar Life:Student at University of Virginia 1857-1858

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: 2nd Lt.

Company: C

Transfer Company:

Regiment: 5th Va. Inf.

Promotions: To Capt. 02-06-1862; commanding Co. 03-23-1862; not reelected 04-19-1862

Transfers and Other Service:Enl. 1st Rockbridge Arty. 00-00-1862; apparently reappointed Capt. Co. C 5th Va. Inf. 00-00-1864, 00-00-1865

Muster Sheet: Sick furlough 12-00-1861

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Missing In Action:

Prison:

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Deserted:

Discharge:

Paroled: 4/9/1865

Notes:

Wounded/Killed Information Other Information

Died of Disease:

Killed in Action:

Wounded in Action: Gettysburg, leg - 7/3/1863

Hospital:

Died of Wounds:

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: 1870 Census, M. D., age 33, 3rd District, Augusta Co. Physician in Spring Hill obituary states he was a sharpshooter

Death Place:

Date of Death: 8/22/1885

Cause of Death:

Burial Place: Mossy Creek Presbyterian Church Old Cemetery

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