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Name: Robert Haxall Fisher
Birth Place: Richmond
Date of Birth: 8/31/1840
Physical Description:
Prewar Life:Educated at Jed. Hotchkiss's Lock Willow Academy and the University of Virginia
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Date of Enlistment: 5/11/1861
Place of Enlistment: Sangersville
Age at Enlistment:
Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer
Conscript or Substitute:
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Rank: Pvt.
Company: I
Transfer Company:
Regiment: 5th Va. Inf.
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Promotions: Appointed Cpl. of the colors 10-00-1861; Color Sgt. 12-00-1861; to 2nd Lt. by 06-09-1862; acting regimental Adj. 06-00-1863
Transfers and Other Service:Detailed as brig. ordnance officer 12-00-1863 to 02-00-1864
Muster Sheet: Present as Color Sgt. Kernstown; paid as Color Sgt. to 07-21-1862; present for duty 02-27-1865
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Discharge:
Paroled: 4/9/1865
Notes: Obituary states he had lost a leg
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Killed in Action:
Wounded in Action: Port Republic; Gettysburg, slightly in arm 07-03-1863 - 6/9/1862
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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: Residing in Richmond; connected with the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad after 1868; member of Pickett Camp C. V. Richmond; member of Monumental Episcopal Church
obituary states he was a sharpshooter
Death Place: Richmond
Date of Death: 2/17/1897
Cause of Death:
Burial Place: Hollywood Cem., Richmond
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