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Name: Peter Henry Harrison Proctor
Birth Place: Fredericksburg
Date of Birth: 8/31/1840
Physical Description:
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Date of Enlistment: 4/17/1861
Place of Enlistment: Staunton
Age at Enlistment:
Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer
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Rank: 1st Sgt.
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Regiment: Staunton Artillery
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Promotions: To 3rd Sgt.; To 1st Sgt.
Transfers and Other Service:
Muster Sheet: Enlisted as 4th Sgt.; Present as 3rd Sgt. Through 08-31-1862 Present as 1st Sgt. 11-00-1862 Through 12-00-1862; Present as 2nd Sgt. 01-00-1863 Through 02-00-1863 Present as 1st Sgt. 07-00-1863 Through 08-00-1863; Present as Pvt. 09-00-1863 Through 04-00-1864; WIA, Spotsylvania C.H. 05-12-1864; Absent, wounded through 06-01-1864; Present until WIA and captured at Cedar Creek 10-19-1864
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Died of Disease:
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Wounded in Action: Spotsylvania C.H., shoulder, Cedar Creek, left leg, 10-19-1864 - 5/12/1864
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Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney
Family Number from 1860 census: (Click on number to see the 1860 census record)
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Postwar Life: Carpenter, 2nd Dist., Augusta Co. 1870 census; Miller, Kerr's Creek, Rockbridge co. and Ft. Lewis and Millboro Springs, Bath Co.
obituary states he was a sharpshooter
Death Place: Green Valley, Bath co.
Date of Death: 9/26/1921
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Burial Place: Woodland Cem., Bath Co.
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