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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:2703).
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Name: John Merritt, "Jack" Doyle Birth Place: Carrollton Green Co. Ill. Date of Birth: 8/31/1840 Physical Description: Prewar Life:Moved to Virginia as a child |
Date of Enlistment: 4/17/1861 Place of Enlistment: Greenville Age at Enlistment: Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer Conscript or Substitute: |
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Rank: Pvt. Company: L Transfer Company: Regiment: 5th Va. Inf. |
Promotions: Transfers and Other Service:Detailed to collect conscripts 01-23-1863. Enl. Co. D 62nd Regt. Va. Inf. Muster Sheet: Mustered in at Harpers Ferry 05-17-1861; incapacitated for field service Captured: Missing In Action: Prison: AWOL: Deserted: Discharge: Paroled: // Notes: Recognized as first man wounded in the Stonewall Brigade. Gen. John Imboden wrote 01-10-63, Doyle is my Lt. Col. He is a very intelligent man and will be valuable to me in collecting conscripts and being disabled for active service I ask his trans. to my command |
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Died of Disease: Killed in Action: Wounded in Action: Hainesville, neck; 08-28-1862 - 7/2/1861 Hospital: Sick, hosp. at 10-00-1861 with gunshot wound in left leg Died of Wounds: |
Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney Family Number from 1860 census: 162 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Dwelling Number from 1860 census: 150 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Postwar Life: Living in Spottswood 1891; clerk and salesman at Greenville 1920 at age 76
obituary states he was a sharpshooter Death Place: Date of Death: // Cause of Death: Burial Place: Epitaph: |