Soldiers Records

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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:29942).

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Personal Information Enlistment Records

Name: David Dillara Childress

Birth Place: Augusta Co.

Date of Birth: 8/31/1840

Physical Description:

Prewar Life:

Date of Enlistment: 5/21/1861

Place of Enlistment: Brownsburg

Age at Enlistment:

Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer

Conscript or Substitute:

Service Information Military Service Record

Rank: Pvt.

Company: H

Transfer Company:

Regiment: 25th Va. Inf.

Promotions:

Transfers and Other Service:12-16-1862, Staunton, enlisted Co. C, 39th Btn. Va. Cav. Without authority; returned to Co. H, 25th Va. Inf.

Muster Sheet: Present through 02-28-1862; absent sick 03-00-1863 To 04-00-1863; present through 08-31-1863; present 01-00-1864 To 04-00-1864

Captured:

Missing In Action:

Prison:

AWOL:

Deserted:

Discharge:

Paroled: 5/25/1865

Notes:

Wounded/Killed Information Other Information

Died of Disease:

Killed in Action:

Wounded in Action: - //

Hospital: Richmond hosp., 11-24-1864 To 11-25-1864

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: Sawyer, age 28, South River Dist. Augusta Co. 1870 census; Res. Of Waynesboro, 1910 census obituary states he was a sharpshooter

Death Place: Waynesboro

Date of Death: 7/7/1925

Cause of Death:

Burial Place: Riverview Cem.

Epitaph:

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