Soldiers Records

From Compiled Military Service Records at National Archives

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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:30268).

Personal Information Enlistment Records

Name: Phillip Greaver

Birth Place: Augusta Co.

Date of Birth: 8/31/1840

Physical Description:

Prewar Life:Farmer, age 21, Augusta Co. 1850 census

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Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer

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Service Information Military Service Record

Rank: Pvt.

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Regiment: 6th Va. Cav.

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Transfers and Other Service:Enl. Co. L, 62nd Va. Inf., Bridgewater, 03-01-1864

Muster Sheet: Conscript detailed in QM Dept., Staunton, 0610-1863 to 03-24-1864; conscript assigned to 6th Va. Cav., 04-20-1864, however, enl. Co. L, 62nd Va. Inf., Bridgewater, 03-01-1864

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Paroled: 4/30/1865

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Wounded/Killed Information Other Information

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Hospital: Ab. sick in Staunton hospital, 12-31-1864

Died of Wounds:

Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney

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Postwar Life: Resident of Augusta Co. Laborer, age 50, 1st Dist. Augusta Co. 1870 census; Age 70 at death obituary states he was a sharpshooter

Death Place: Clifton Forge

Date of Death: 9/9/1897

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Burial Place: Thornrose Cem.

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