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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:2712).
Personal Information | Enlistment Records |
Name: William Guilford Dudley Birth Place: Augusta Co. Date of Birth: 8/31/1840 Physical Description: Prewar Life:1860 Census, Laborer, age 16, Northern District, Augusta Co. |
Date of Enlistment: 7/15/1861 Place of Enlistment: Age at Enlistment: Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer Conscript or Substitute: |
Service Information | Military Service Record |
Rank: Cpl. Company: I Transfer Company: Regiment: 5th Va. Inf. |
Promotions: Transfers and Other Service:Detached to arrest conscripts 02-00-1863 Muster Sheet: Not carried on roster until 04-00-1862; left sick at Jeffersonton 08-28-1862; not fit for field duty 02-00-1863; returned from detached service 04-00-1863; returned 10-00-1863 from being wounded at Gettysburg Captured: Missing In Action: Prison: AWOL: Deserted: Discharge: Paroled: // Notes: His father and slaves brought him over the mountains on a litter home, where he died |
Wounded/Killed Information | Other Information |
Died of Disease: Killed in Action: Wounded in Action: Malvern Hill, foot; Gettysburg, slightly in ankle 07-03-1863; Wilderness, thigh broken 05-06-1864 - 7/1/1862 Hospital: Died of Wounds: |
Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney Family Number from 1860 census: 436 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Dwelling Number from 1860 census: 431 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Postwar Life:
obituary states he was a sharpshooter Death Place: at his father's house Augusta Co. Date of Death: 9/19/1864 Cause of Death: Burial Place: Mossy Creek Presbyterian Church Cemetery Epitaph: |