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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:2253).
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Name: Samuel C. Baskins Birth Place: Augusta Co. Date of Birth: 8/31/1840 Physical Description: Prewar Life:1860 Census, Bank Clerk, age 22, Staunton. Pvt., West Augusta Guard 1859 |
Date of Enlistment: 4/1/1862 Place of Enlistment: Age at Enlistment: Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer Conscript or Substitute: |
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Rank: Musician Company: Transfer Company: Regiment: 5th Va. Inf. |
Promotions: Transfers and Other Service: Muster Sheet: Present in all actions from 04-00-1862 until discharge 10-28-1862 Captured: Missing In Action: Prison: AWOL: Deserted: Discharge: Paroled: // Notes: Brice, Stonewall Brigade Band, gives enlistment date as 04-17-61; played tenor horn |
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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: 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 Teller, age 33, Staunton. Vice President of Stonewall Brigade Band 1869; Secretary and Treasurer 1875; Secretary and Treasurer West Augusta Guard 1871; moved to Roanoke and in 1880 moved to Abbeville S. C. to be with his sister Mrs. B. J. Gibbert
obituary states he was a sharpshooter Death Place: Abbeville S. C. Date of Death: 12/2/1892 Cause of Death: Burial Place: Epitaph: |