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Name: William Oliver Evans
Birth Place: Maryland
Date of Birth: 8/31/1840
Physical Description:
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Date of Enlistment: 4/19/1861
Place of Enlistment: Fishersville
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Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer
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Rank: Pvt.
Company: H
Transfer Company:
Regiment: 5th Va. Inf.
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Promotions: Listed as Cpl. in casualty returns
Transfers and Other Service:Enl. Co. A Davis's Bn. Md. Cav. (later Co. M 23rd Va. Cav.) Charlestown 08-08-1864
Muster Sheet: Mustered in at Harpers Ferry 05-19-1861; returned 10-00-1862 from being wounded at Winchester; present 10-00-1864
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Paroled: 5/15/1865
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Wounded in Action: Winchester - 5/25/1862
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Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney
Family Number from 1860 census: (Click on number to see the 1860 census record)
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Postwar Life: 1870 Census, Shoemaker, age 29, South River District, Augusta Co.
obituary states he was a sharpshooter
Death Place: Roanoke age 44
Date of Death: 4/5/1884
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