Soldiers Records

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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:2739).

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Personal Information Enlistment Records

Name: David F. Eckard

Birth Place: Augusta Co.

Date of Birth: 8/31/1840

Physical Description:

Prewar Life:

Date of Enlistment: 4/18/1861

Place of Enlistment: Greenville

Age at Enlistment:

Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer

Conscript or Substitute:

Service Information Military Service Record

Rank: 1st Lt.

Company: E

Transfer Company:

Regiment: 5th Va. Inf.

Promotions: Shown as 2nd Lt. 04-18-1862 and commanding Co. 10-00-1862

Transfers and Other Service:

Muster Sheet: Mustered in at Harpers Ferry; returned 02-00-1863 from being in hosp. at Winchester; returned 08-00-1863 from being in hosp. at Staunton; furlough 02-00-1864, 03-00-1864; absent sick 10-00-1864 to 02-00-1865

Captured:

Missing In Action:

Prison:

AWOL:

Deserted:

Discharge:

Paroled: 5/18/1865

Notes: Capt. Edwin L. Curtis, according to an undated record, wanted Eckard to report to the Augusta Co. conscription board; he has been abs. 6 months, feigning sickness and will not go before a board to be retired. He is withall an inefficient officer.

Wounded/Killed Information Other Information

Died of Disease:

Killed in Action:

Wounded in Action: - //

Hospital: Sent to hosp. at Winchester by surgeon 11-19-1862; sent to hosp. at Staunton 06-04-1863

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: obituary states he was a sharpshooter

Death Place:

Date of Death: 2/27/1914

Cause of Death:

Burial Place: Confederate Memorial Cemetery Higginsville Mo.

Epitaph:

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