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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:30143).
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Name: Benjamin Franklin Collins Birth Place: Augusta Co. Date of Birth: 8/31/1840 Physical Description: Prewar Life:Wagonmaker, age 30, 1st Dist. Augusta Co. 1860 census |
Date of Enlistment: // Place of Enlistment: Staunton Age at Enlistment: Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer Conscript or Substitute: |
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Rank: Company: Transfer Company: Regiment: Quartermaster Dept., C.S.A. |
Promotions: Transfers and Other Service: Muster Sheet: Served in QM Dept. under Col. Randolph Turk as Wagonmaker in government wagon yard, Staunton Captured: Missing In Action: Prison: AWOL: Deserted: Discharge: Paroled: // Notes: |
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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: 714 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Dwelling Number from 1860 census: 690 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Postwar Life: Res. Laurel Hill, 1910
obituary states he was a sharpshooter Death Place: Middlebrook Date of Death: 8/23/1912 Cause of Death: Burial Place: Thornrose Cem. Epitaph: |