Soldiers Records

From Compiled Military Service Records at National Archives

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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:2483).

Personal Information Enlistment Records

Name: James Hamilton Campbell

Birth Place: Rockbridge Co.

Date of Birth: 8/31/1840

Physical Description:

Prewar Life:Residing in Rockbridge Co.

Date of Enlistment: 4/18/1861

Place of Enlistment: Greenville

Age at Enlistment:

Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer

Conscript or Substitute:

Service Information Military Service Record

Rank: Pvt.

Company: E

Transfer Company:

Regiment: 5th Va. Inf.

Promotions: To Cpl. 09-09-1861

Transfers and Other Service:Detailed to arrest deserters under Capt. St. Francis Roberts 01-06-1863

Muster Sheet: Returned 08-00-1863 from detail

Captured:

Missing In Action:

Prison:

AWOL:

Deserted:

Discharge:

Paroled: //

Notes:

Wounded/Killed Information Other Information

Died of Disease:

Killed in Action:

Wounded in Action: - //

Hospital: Sick, hosp. at Martinsburg 06-00-1861

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: 1870 Census, Saddler, age 33, Riverheads District, Augusta Co. obituary states he was a sharpshooter

Death Place: Staunton

Date of Death: 8/23/1894

Cause of Death:

Burial Place: Greenville

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