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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:29979).
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Name: John Daniel Imboden Birth Place: Christian's Creek, Augusta Co. Date of Birth: 8/31/1840 Physical Description: Prewar Life:Attended Staunton Academy and Washington College 00-00-41 Through 00-00-42; Lawyer, Supt. Of Schools, Augusta Co. 00-00-47 Through 00-00-57; Member, Va. House of Delegates, 00-00-51 Through 00-00-52 And 00-00-55 Through 00-00-56; Clerk of Court, Augusta Co. 00-00-58 Through 00-00-61; Member, Va. Secession Convention |
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: Capt. Company: Transfer Company: Regiment: Staunton Artillery |
Promotions: Appt. Col. 62nd Va. Inf. 05-07-1862; Promoted to Brig. Gen. Of Cavalry, 01-28-1863; Transfers and Other Service:Authorized to raise a brigade of Partisan Rangers in Northwest Va.; Served as Col., 62nd Va. Inf.; Transferred to 18th Va. Cav. 06-00-1862; Commanding Brigade, Western Virginia raid and Gettysburg campaign; Commanding Valley District 07-21-1863 Through 12-00-1864; Health broken by Typhoid Fever 12-00-1864 And assigned to command C.S.A. prisons west of the Savannah River; Surrendered Greensboro, N.C. 05-02-1865 Muster Sheet: Present through 08-00-1861; Absent, on leave 10-13-1861 Through 10-29-1861; Present through 04-22-1862 Captured: Missing In Action: Prison: AWOL: Deserted: Discharge: Paroled: // Notes: Surrendered, 05-02-65, Greensboro, N.C. |
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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: 170 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Dwelling Number from 1860 census: 158 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Postwar Life: Lawyer, Richmond; Published 'The Coal and Iron Resources of Virginia', 00-00-72; Railroad and coal mine developer in southwest Va. And W.Va..; Coal deposits he found in Wise and Dickenson Counties still bear his name; Commissioner to the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia 00-00-76 And to the Columbia Exposition 00-00-93; Founder of the town of Damascus, Va.; Res. Abingdon, Bristol, and Damascus;
obituary states he was a sharpshooter Death Place: Damascus, Va. Date of Death: 8/15/1895 Cause of Death: Burial Place: Originally Episcopal Ch. Cem., Damascus, Va.; Removed to Hollywood Cem, Richmond, 00-00-08 Epitaph: |