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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:2039).
Personal Information | Enlistment Records |
Name: Robert A. Wilson Birth Place: Missouri Date of Birth: 8/31/1840 Physical Description: Prewar Life:1860 Census, Painter, age 20, 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: L Transfer Company: Regiment: 5th Va. Inf. |
Promotions: Transfers and Other Service:Appointed Musician (tenor horn) and transf. to 5th Regt. Band Muster Sheet: Returned to duty from being wounded before end of 00-00-1862; served at Petersburg Captured: Missing In Action: Prison: AWOL: Deserted: Discharge: Paroled: 4/9/1865 Notes: |
Wounded/Killed Information | Other Information |
Died of Disease: Killed in Action: Wounded in Action: Gaines Mill, severely in thigh - 6/27/1862 Hospital: Died of Wounds: |
Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney Family Number from 1860 census: 370 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Dwelling Number from 1860 census: 331 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Postwar Life: Alive in 1882; moved west by 1895
obituary states he was a sharpshooter Death Place: Date of Death: // Cause of Death: Burial Place: Epitaph: |