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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:2708).
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Name: David William Drake Birth Place: Frederick Co. Date of Birth: 8/31/1840 Physical Description: Prewar Life:1860 Census, Clerk, age 25, Staunton. Organized Mountain Sax Horn Band at Staunton 1854 |
Date of Enlistment: 4/17/1861 Place of Enlistment: Staunton 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: Became Sgt. and Principal Musician 1st Regt. Va. Inf. Transfers and Other Service:Detailed as regimental bugler 04-00-1861 to 06-00-1861; transf. 10-31-1861 to Co. E 1st Regt. Va. Cav. Muster Sheet: Served until end of war in 1st Regt. Va. Inf. Captured: Missing In Action: Prison: AWOL: Deserted: Discharge: Paroled: // Notes: Known as Father of the Stonewall Brigade Band |
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Died of Disease: Killed in Action: Wounded in Action: - // Hospital: Died of Wounds: |
Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney Family Number from 1860 census: 373 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Dwelling Number from 1860 census: 334 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Postwar Life: 1870 Census, Dry Goods Merchant, age 33, Staunton. Opened a dry goods store in Staunton 1869 with Robert N. Guy; resumed Stonewall Brigade Band membership and played the E-flat cornet; was incorporator of the band in 1875; organized a militia cav.
obituary states he was a sharpshooter Death Place: Date of Death: 10/25/1909 Cause of Death: Burial Place: Thornrose Cemetery Staunton Epitaph: |