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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:2100).
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Name: Samuel McPherson Yost Birth Place: Union Monroe Co. Date of Birth: 8/31/1840 Physical Description: Prewar Life:Printer in Harrisonburg and Clarksburg; editor and owner of Staunton Vindicator; removed to Missouri and New Mexico Territory 1859; 1860 Census, Editor, Staunton Vindicator, age 29, Staunton |
Date of Enlistment: 12/1/1864 Place of Enlistment: Staunton Age at Enlistment: Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer Conscript or Substitute: |
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Rank: Pvt. Company: C Transfer Company: Regiment: 5th Va. Inf. |
Promotions: Transfers and Other Service:Served as QM on Gen. W. W. Loring's staff Muster Sheet: Captured: Missing In Action: Prison: AWOL: Deserted: Discharge: Paroled: 5/10/1865 Notes: |
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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: 423 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Dwelling Number from 1860 census: 375 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Postwar Life: Owner of Rockingham Register, Valley Virginian, Daily Times, and Yost's Weekly; Postmaster Staunton 1872-1884 and 1889-1905
obituary states he was a sharpshooter Death Place: Staunton Date of Death: 2/21/1915 Cause of Death: Burial Place: Thornrose Cemetery Epitaph: |