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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:2723).
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Name: John Colvin Dunlap Birth Place: Augusta Co. Date of Birth: 8/31/1840 Physical Description: Prewar Life:1860 Census, Farmhand, age 20, 1st District, Augusta Co. Pvt., Southern Guard 1860 |
Date of Enlistment: 3/17/1862 Place of Enlistment: Staunton Age at Enlistment: Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer Conscript or Substitute: |
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Rank: Pvt. Company: D Transfer Company: Regiment: 5th Va. Inf. |
Promotions: Transfers and Other Service:Enl. Co. C 39th Bn. Va. Cav. 01-16-1862 as 1st Sgt.; on horse detail 12-24-1864 to 12-31-1864 Muster Sheet: Present 03-00-1863, 04-00-1863; absent sick in hosp. 08-11-1863; absent sick 08-31-1863; present 09-00-1864, 10-00-1864 as 2nd Sgt.; absent on horse detail 12-24-1864 to 12-31-1864 Captured: Missing In Action: Prison: AWOL: Deserted: Discharge: Paroled: 5/13/1865 Notes: No record of his service in Compiled Service Records, yet there is this appraisal of him, he has been on all the marches and attended to his guard duty. I have never heard him complain. |
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Died of Disease: Killed in Action: Wounded in Action: - // Hospital: Debilitas, hosp. at Charlottesville 08-11-1863; transf. to hosp. at Staunton 08-12-1863 Died of Wounds: |
Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney Family Number from 1860 census: 1517 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Dwelling Number from 1860 census: 1546 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Postwar Life: 1870 Census, Farmer, age 30, Riverheads District, Augusta Co.
obituary states he was a sharpshooter Death Place: Date of Death: // Cause of Death: Burial Place: Epitaph: |