Soldiers Records

From Compiled Military Service Records at National Archives

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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:27174).

Personal Information Enlistment Records

Name: Jacob Harner Leonard

Birth Place: Augusta Co.

Date of Birth: 8/31/1840

Physical Description:

Prewar Life:1860 census listed occupation as overseer, Northern District, Augusta Co.

Date of Enlistment: 4/19/1861

Place of Enlistment: Waynesboro

Age at Enlistment:

Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer

Conscript or Substitute:

Service Information Military Service Record

Rank: Pvt.

Company: E

Transfer Company:

Regiment: 1st Va. Cav.

Promotions:

Transfers and Other Service:Detailed as ambulance driver 10-62-10-63

Muster Sheet: Present until detailed as ambulance driver 10-1862-10-63. Present through 6-64.

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Prison:

AWOL:

Deserted:

Discharge:

Paroled: 5/5/1865

Notes:

Wounded/Killed Information Other Information

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Killed in Action:

Wounded in Action: - //

Hospital:

Died of Wounds:

Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney

Family Number from 1860 census: 1819 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record)

Dwelling Number from 1860 census: 1814 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record)

Postwar Life: Merchant in Augusta Co. obituary states he was a sharpshooter

Death Place: near Crimora

Date of Death: 7/31/1907

Cause of Death:

Burial Place: Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery

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