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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:1979).
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Name: John William Weaver Birth Place: New Hope Augusta Co. Date of Birth: 8/31/1840 Physical Description: Prewar Life:1860 Census, Laborer, age 31, 1st District, Augusta Co. |
Date of Enlistment: 4/30/1863 Place of Enlistment: Age at Enlistment: Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer Conscript or Substitute: |
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Rank: Pvt. Company: D Transfer Company: Regiment: 5th Va. Inf. |
Promotions: Transfers and Other Service: Muster Sheet: Captured: Missing In Action: Prison: AWOL: Deserted: Discharge: Paroled: // Notes: |
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Died of Disease: Killed in Action: Wounded in Action: Wilderness, left shoulder , according to pension application - 5/5/1864 Hospital: Died of Wounds: |
Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney Family Number from 1860 census: 438 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Dwelling Number from 1860 census: 387 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Postwar Life: 1870 Census, Farmhand, age 44, Riverheads District, Augusta Co. Living in Middlebrook 1893; farmer
obituary states he was a sharpshooter Death Place: Summerdean Date of Death: 8/15/1910 Cause of Death: Burial Place: Mt. Tabor Lutheran Church Cemetery Epitaph: |