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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:2964).
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Name: David Washington Hanger Birth Place: Near Waynesboro Date of Birth: 8/31/1840 Physical Description: Prewar Life:Graduate of University of Virginia 1856 and Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia; student at University of Maryland. 1860 Census, M. D., age 24, Northern District, Augusta Co. |
Date of Enlistment: // Place of Enlistment: Age at Enlistment: Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer Conscript or Substitute: |
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Rank: Surgeon Company: Transfer Company: Regiment: 5th Va. Inf. |
Promotions: Transfers and Other Service:Detailed to smallpox hosp. Staunton Muster Sheet: Captured: Missing In Action: Prison: AWOL: Deserted: Discharge: Paroled: // Notes: Reported to have been Surgeon 5th Va. Inf., but this is not confirmed in Compiled Service Records. He was a man of fine mental ability, possessed an inexhaustable fund of humor that made him popular in social gatherings. . . |
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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: 1308 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Dwelling Number from 1860 census: 1303 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Postwar Life: M. D. in New Hope 1865; soon moved to Fishersville. 1870 Census, Age 34, 2nd District, Augusta Co. Farmer
obituary states he was a sharpshooter Death Place: Fishersville Date of Death: 2/5/1899 Cause of Death: Burial Place: Tinkling Spring Presbyterian Church Cemetery Epitaph: |