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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:30409).
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Name: Henry Luther Hoover Birth Place: Indiana Date of Birth: 8/31/1840 Physical Description: Prewar Life:Moved to Augusta Co.; Gd. Washington College, 1860; Att. U. of Va., 1860-61; Farmhand, age 25, 1st Dist. Augusta Co. 1860 census |
Date of Enlistment: 6/7/1861 Place of Enlistment: Staunton Age at Enlistment: Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer Conscript or Substitute: |
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Rank: 2nd Lt. Company: H Transfer Company: Regiment: 25th Va. Inf. |
Promotions: Appointed Adj., 07-01-1861; dropped as Adj., 05-01-1862 Transfers and Other Service:Served in "Sons of Liberty" Co., U. of Va. Students, 04-00-1861 to 06-00-1861, disbanded Muster Sheet: Pres., 07-00-1863 to 08-00-1863; ab. on CM duty, 11-00-1863 to 12-00-1863; ab. on leave, 01-00-1864 to 02-00-1864; pres., 03-00-1864 to 04-00-1864 Captured: Missing In Action: Prison: AWOL: Deserted: Discharge: Paroled: 7/16/1861 Notes: One of the Immortal 600 |
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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: 1540 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Dwelling Number from 1860 census: 1571 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Postwar Life: Teacher, age 35, Pastures Dist. Augusta Co. 1870 census; Teacher, Moorefield and Staunton; Insurance and Building & Loan business; Member, Stonewall Jackson Camp, CV, Staunton
obituary states he was a sharpshooter Death Place: Greensboro, N.C. Date of Death: 3/19/1898 Cause of Death: Burial Place: Thornrose Cem. Epitaph: |