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:2773).

Personal Information Enlistment Records

Name: John Hanger Fauber

Birth Place: Waynesboro

Date of Birth: 8/31/1840

Physical Description:

Prewar Life:

Date of Enlistment: 4/19/1861

Place of Enlistment: Fishersville

Age at Enlistment:

Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer

Conscript or Substitute:

Service Information Military Service Record

Rank: Musician

Company: H

Transfer Company:

Regiment: 5th Va. Inf.

Promotions: To 1st Sgt. 04-20-1862

Transfers and Other Service:Detailed as Regt. QM Sgt. 12-00-1863

Muster Sheet: Mustered in at Harpers Ferry 05-19-1861; present 11-27-1863; absent wounded 10-00-1864

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Paroled: //

Notes: Drummer

Wounded/Killed Information Other Information

Died of Disease:

Killed in Action:

Wounded in Action: Port Republic, leg; Monocacy, foot - 7/9/1864

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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: 1870 Census, Farmer, age 33, 2nd District, Augusta Co. Receiving pension in Dooms 1902; membership application for U. C. V. Camp 05-27-03; residing in Waynesboro; brickmaker obituary states he was a sharpshooter

Death Place:

Date of Death: 6/29/1918

Cause of Death:

Burial Place: Riverview Cemetery

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