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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:2187).
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Name: Charles Steele Arnall Birth Place: Augusta Co. Date of Birth: 8/31/1840 Physical Description: Prewar Life:1860 Census, Deputy Clerk of Court, age 21, Staunton |
Date of Enlistment: 4/17/1861 Place of Enlistment: Staunton Age at Enlistment: Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer Conscript or Substitute: |
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Rank: Pvt. Company: L Transfer Company: Regiment: 5th Va. Inf. |
Promotions: To Sgt. 05-20-1861; to Adj. 05-15-1862 Transfers and Other Service:On recruiting duty 08-21-1861. Detailed as brig. Asst. Adj. Gen. 00-00-1863 Muster Sheet: Mustered in at Harpers Ferry 05-17-1861; present Mine Run Captured: Missing In Action: Prison: AWOL: Deserted: Discharge: Paroled: 4/9/1865 Notes: Detailed account of death in Atlanta Constitution; To the very point of harihood he was brave. Wherever the quick and the dead wer in red burial blent - whenever the tunder of the guns rolled in deepest disason-there was young Arnall, flushed with the ardor of battle, splendid in his unwavering, and inspiration to all who beheld him in the very maelstrom of death. |
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Died of Disease: Killed in Action: Wounded in Action: Port Republic; Manassas 08-28-1862 - 6/9/1862 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: 1870 Census, Bank Clerk, age 31, Staunton. Member of Stonewall Jackson Camp No. 25 C. V. Staunton; manager of life insurance co. in Atlanta
obituary states he was a sharpshooter Death Place: Date of Death: 2/23/1905 Cause of Death: Burial Place: Thornrose Cemetery Epitaph: |