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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:2567).
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Name: Alexander Boys Cochran Birth Place: Augusta Co. Date of Birth: 8/31/1840 Physical Description: Prewar Life:Attended Staunton Academy, Washington College, and Virginia Military Institute; graduate of University of Virginia 1860. 1860 Census, Student, age 22, Staunton |
Date of Enlistment: 4/28/1861 Place of Enlistment: Staunton Age at Enlistment: Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer Conscript or Substitute: |
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Rank: 1st Lt. Company: G Transfer Company: Regiment: 5th Va. Inf. |
Promotions: Elected 2nd Lt. 03-15-1862; to 1st Lt. 06-25-1863 Charlottesville Arty. Transfers and Other Service:Charlottesville Arty.; retired to Invalid Corps Muster Sheet: Mustered in at Harpers Ferry 05-14-1861; resigned 05-24-1861; assigned to Ordnance Department after exchange Captured: Missing In Action: Prison: AWOL: Deserted: Discharge: Paroled: // Notes: |
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Died of Disease: Killed in Action: Wounded in Action: Morton's Ford - 2/7/1864 Hospital: Wounded, hosp. at 02-07-1864 Died of Wounds: |
Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney Family Number from 1860 census: 400 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Dwelling Number from 1860 census: 357 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Postwar Life: 1870 Census, Lawyer, age 35, Staunton. Postwar Commonwealth's Attorney for Augusta Co. 1865 until removed by Gen. Canby; member of Virginia legislature 1869-1870; Judge in Staunton
obituary states he was a sharpshooter Death Place: Date of Death: 7/2/1877 Cause of Death: Burial Place: Thornrose Cemetery Staunton Epitaph: |