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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:2313).
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Name: Charles Gamble Berry Birth Place: Date of Birth: 8/31/1840 Physical Description: Prewar Life:1860 Census, Farmer, age 27, 1st District, Augusta Co. |
Date of Enlistment: 10/18/1864 Place of Enlistment: Staunton Age at Enlistment: Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer Conscript or Substitute: |
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Rank: Pvt. Company: D Transfer Company: Regiment: 5th Va. Inf. |
Promotions: Transfers and Other Service:Pvt. Co. H (Rockbridge Rifles) 27th Regt. Va. Inf. Muster Sheet: Enl. 02-28-1863 in Rockbridge Co. in 27th Regt. Va. Inf.; discharged and re-conscripted or transf. to 5th Va.; denied military exemption 03-00-1862 Captured: Missing In Action: Prison: AWOL: Deserted: Discharge: Paroled: 4/9/1865 Notes: Berry wrote after the war that 25 of his co. were present in the attack on Ft. Stedman at Petersburg and that he was one of twelve that came out |
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Died of Disease: Killed in Action: Wounded in Action: - // Hospital: Sick, hosp. 08-00-1863 to 03-00-1864 while member of 27th Regt. Va. Inf. Died of Wounds: |
Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney Family Number from 1860 census: 1323 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Dwelling Number from 1860 census: 1338 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Postwar Life: 1870 Census, Farmer, Riverheads District, Augusta Co.
obituary states he was a sharpshooter Death Place: near Moffett's Creek Augusta Co. Date of Death: 8/16/1899 Cause of Death: Burial Place: New Providence Presbyterian Church Cemetery Rockbridge Co. Epitaph: |