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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:2864).
Personal Information | Enlistment Records |
Name: James Baker Gilkeson Birth Place: Frederick Co. Date of Birth: 8/31/1840 Physical Description: Prewar Life:1860 Census, M. D., age 23, Staunton |
Date of Enlistment: 4/17/1861 Place of Enlistment: Staunton Age at Enlistment: Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer Conscript or Substitute: |
Service Information | Military Service Record |
Rank: Pvt. Company: L Transfer Company: Regiment: 5th Va. Inf. |
Promotions: Appointed Assistant Surgeon 5th Regt. 04-17-1861; appointed Assistant Surgeon 07-00-1863 Transfers and Other Service:Contract surgeon Staunton and Winchester 00-00-1862 and 00-00-1863; served with the Sumter Bn. Ga. Arty. as Asst. Surg. 07-00-1863; Assistant Surgeon, W. T. Poague's Arty. Muster Sheet: Served until 04-29-1861 as Asst. Surg. 5th Regt.; never mustered in with the regt. Captured: Missing In Action: Prison: AWOL: Deserted: Discharge: Paroled: 4/9/1865 Notes: |
Wounded/Killed Information | Other Information |
Died of Disease: Killed in Action: Wounded in Action: - // Hospital: Died of Wounds: |
Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney Family Number from 1860 census: 370 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Dwelling Number from 1860 census: 331 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Postwar Life: M. D. in Fauquier Co.
obituary states he was a sharpshooter Death Place: Bentonsville Warren Co. age 34. Date of Death: 6/12/1871 Cause of Death: Burial Place: Epitaph: |