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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:3021).
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Name: John Wilson Hays Birth Place: Near Greenville Date of Birth: 8/31/1840 Physical Description: Prewar Life:1860 Census, Farmhand, age 27, 1st District, Augusta Co. |
Date of Enlistment: 4/18/1861 Place of Enlistment: Greenville Age at Enlistment: Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer Conscript or Substitute: |
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Rank: Pvt. Company: E Transfer Company: Regiment: 5th Va. Inf. |
Promotions: To Sgt. 02-06-1863 for meritorious service Transfers and Other Service: Muster Sheet: Returned 02-00-1862 from being wounded at Manassas; returned 10-00-1862 from being wounded at Sharpsburg; returned 08-00-1863 from being in hosp.. at Jordan's Springs Captured: Missing In Action: Prison: AWOL: Deserted: Discharge: Paroled: // Notes: |
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Died of Disease: Killed in Action: Wounded in Action: Manassas; Sharpsburg 09-17-1862; Wilderness, slightly in elbow 05-05-1864 - 7/21/1861 Hospital: Hosp. at Jordan's Springs 06-17-1863 Died of Wounds: |
Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney Family Number from 1860 census: 1049 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Dwelling Number from 1860 census: 1042 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Postwar Life: 1870 Census, Farmer, age 36, Riverheads District, Augusta Co. Membership application for Stonewall Jackson Camp No. 25 C. V. Staunton 06-11-03; residing in Greenville; farmer
obituary states he was a sharpshooter Death Place: near Greenville Date of Death: 12/7/1904 Cause of Death: Burial Place: Bethel Presbyterian Church Cemetery Epitaph: |