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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:29824).
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Name: Ulysses V. Abney Birth Place: Augusta Co. Date of Birth: 8/31/1840 Physical Description: Prewar Life:Clerk, aged 23 per 1860 census |
Date of Enlistment: 4/17/1861 Place of Enlistment: Staunton Age at Enlistment: Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer Conscript or Substitute: |
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Rank: 3rd Sgt. Company: Transfer Company: Regiment: Staunton Artillery |
Promotions: Transfers and Other Service: Muster Sheet: Absent, sick with Typhoid Fever from 08-06-1861 Through 08-31-1861, returned 10-00-1861; Present 10-31-1861 Through 04-16-1862; Absent, sick from 09-00-1862 Through 12-00-1862 Captured: Missing In Action: Prison: AWOL: Deserted: Discharge: Paroled: // Notes: |
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Died of Disease: Killed in Action: Wounded in Action: - // Hospital: Discharged from hosp., Staunton 12-22-1862 phthisispulmonalis Died of Wounds: |
Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney Family Number from 1860 census: 413 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Dwelling Number from 1860 census: 367 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Postwar Life: Farmer, aged 34, South River Dist., 1870 Augusta Census
obituary states he was a sharpshooter Death Place: Date of Death: // Cause of Death: Burial Place: Epitaph: |