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Name: John Francis Brooke
Birth Place: Staunton
Date of Birth: 8/31/1840
Physical Description:
Prewar Life:
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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.
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Promotions: To Ordnance Sgt. 03-01-1863
Transfers and Other Service:Transf. to regimental staff
Muster Sheet: Mustered in at Harpers Ferry 05-17-1861
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Discharge:
Paroled: 4/9/1865
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Died of Disease:
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Wounded in Action: - //
Hospital: Sick, hosp. at Staunton 12-21-1863
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Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney
Family Number from 1860 census: (Click on number to see the 1860 census record)
Dwelling Number from 1860 census: (Click on number to see the 1860 census record)
Postwar Life: Employed for about 5 years at the McCormick reaper plant in Chicago; from there went to Colorado and operated a cattle ranch with his brother Frank; returned to Staunton in 1884 after spending 20 years in the west; membership application for Stonewall Jackson Camp No. 25 C. V. Staunton 04-16-13; honored with an illustrated scroll on his 100th birthday by citizens of Staunton; his home at 202 Thompson St. was noted for its flower garden which he tended until only a few years before his death; at death was Staunton's last Confederate veteran and last known survivor of 5th Va.
obituary states he was a sharpshooter
Death Place:
Date of Death: 3/26/1942
Cause of Death:
Burial Place: Thornrose Cemetery Staunton
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