Soldiers Records

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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:2038).

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Personal Information Enlistment Records

Name: Philander E. Wilson

Birth Place: Near Stuart's Draft

Date of Birth: 8/31/1840

Physical Description:

Prewar Life:1850 Census, Merchant, age 27, Augusta Co.

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Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer

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Service Information Military Service Record

Rank: Pvt.

Company: E

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Regiment: 5th Va. Inf.

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Notes: On postwar roster; obituary states Ran messages for the Confederacy

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Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney

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Postwar Life: Residing in Plunkettsville 1891; employee of U. S. Patent Office obituary states he was a sharpshooter

Death Place: Washington D. C. age 77

Date of Death: 1/17/1898

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