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:2575).

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Personal Information Enlistment Records

Name: Jacob Coiner

Birth Place: Augusta Co.

Date of Birth: 8/31/1840

Physical Description:

Prewar Life:1850 Census, Farmer, age 20, Augusta Co.

Date of Enlistment: 4/19/1861

Place of Enlistment: Fishersville

Age at Enlistment:

Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer

Conscript or Substitute:

Service Information Military Service Record

Rank: Cpl.

Company: H

Transfer Company:

Regiment: 5th Va. Inf.

Promotions:

Transfers and Other Service:Enl. Co. B 23rd Regt. Va. Cav. 10-30-1864 in Augusta Co.

Muster Sheet: Mustered in at Harpers Ferry 05-19-1861; hired a substitute 05-03-1862

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Prison:

AWOL:

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Discharge:

Paroled: //

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Wounded/Killed Information Other Information

Died of Disease:

Killed in Action:

Wounded in Action: Kernstown, leg - 3/23/1862

Hospital:

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: Farmer and magistrate Waynesboro obituary states he was a sharpshooter

Death Place: near Waynesboro

Date of Death: 3/31/1898

Cause of Death:

Burial Place: Tinkling Spring Presbyterian Church Cemetery

Epitaph:

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