Soldiers Records

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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:2406).

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Personal Information Enlistment Records

Name: John Moffatt Brown

Birth Place: Augusta Co.

Date of Birth: 8/31/1840

Physical Description:

Prewar Life:

Date of Enlistment: 4/29/1861

Place of Enlistment: Harpers Ferry

Age at Enlistment:

Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer

Conscript or Substitute:

Service Information Military Service Record

Rank: 1st Lt.

Company: F

Transfer Company:

Regiment: 5th Va. Inf.

Promotions: From Cpl. to Sgt. by 12-00-1861; elected 2nd Lt. 04-29-1862; to 1st Lt. 10-26-1863

Transfers and Other Service:

Muster Sheet: Present at Mine Run 11-27-1863; commanding Co. 12-00-1863, 02-00-1864, 10-00-1864

Captured:

Missing In Action:

Prison:

AWOL:

Deserted:

Discharge:

Paroled: //

Notes: Surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse 04-09-65

Wounded/Killed Information Other Information

Died of Disease:

Killed in Action:

Wounded in Action: Gaines Mill, leg; wounded twice according to postwar roster - 6/27/1862

Hospital: Hosp. at Staunton 10-10-1861

Died of Wounds:

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: Member of Stonewall Jackson Camp Staunton obituary states he was a sharpshooter

Death Place: Westfield

Date of Death: 7/2/1920

Cause of Death:

Burial Place: Hebron Presbyterian Church Cemetery

Epitaph:

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