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Personal Information Enlistment Records

Name: James Marshall Hanger

Birth Place: Near Waynesboro

Date of Birth: 8/31/1840

Physical Description:

Prewar Life:Att. Waynesboro Academy. Graduated UVa 1855 B.L.

Date of Enlistment: 4/19/1861

Place of Enlistment: Waynesboro

Age at Enlistment:

Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer

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Service Information Military Service Record

Rank: Pvt.

Company: E

Transfer Company:

Regiment: 1st Va. Cav.

Promotions: Appointed Capt. in QM Dept. 8-1-1862; To Maj.

Transfers and Other Service:Detailed with Brigade QM 4-30-1862; Served on J.E.B. Stuart's staff 10-21-1862 to 7-23-1863; Served on Gen. Wade Hampton's staff to 8-11-1864; Prom. to Maj. and assigned to Gen. W. F. Lee's staff.

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Paroled: //

Notes: Surrendered Appomattox C.H. 4-9-65

Wounded/Killed Information Other Information

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Wounded in Action: - //

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Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney

Family Number from 1860 census: (Click on number to see the 1860 census record)

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Postwar Life: Lawyer, Staunton 1865-69. Clerk and Administrator, Va. House of Delegates 1869-82. Member, V.M.I. Bd. of Visitors 1889-91. Counsel to Bermuda 1893-97. obituary states he was a sharpshooter

Death Place:

Date of Death: 8/26/1912

Cause of Death:

Burial Place: Thornrose Cemetery

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