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:27278).

Personal Information Enlistment Records

Name: William Franklin Weller

Birth Place: Augusta Co.

Date of Birth: 8/31/1840

Physical Description:

Prewar Life:

Date of Enlistment: 7/14/1861

Place of Enlistment: Camp Carter

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 with Mosby for a short time.

Muster Sheet: Present until WIA. Returned to duty. Present 6-30-64.

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Missing In Action:

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AWOL:

Deserted:

Discharge:

Paroled: 4/30/1865

Notes:

Wounded/Killed Information Other Information

Died of Disease:

Killed in Action:

Wounded in Action: Cold Harbor, in the eye - 5/31/1864

Hospital:

Died of Wounds:

Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney

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

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

Postwar Life: 1910 census listed occupation as attendant, Western State Hospital, Staunton. Nightwatchman, Staunton, in 1916. Member, Stonewall Jackson Camp, CV, Staunton. obituary states he was a sharpshooter

Death Place: Mt. Sidney

Date of Death: 2/21/1919

Cause of Death:

Burial Place: Mt. Sidney Methodist Church Cemetery

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