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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:30531).
Personal Information | Enlistment Records |
Name: John W. Alexander Birth Place: Waynesboro Date of Birth: 8/31/1840 Physical Description: Prewar Life:1860 Census, Farmer, age 22, Sherando, 1st District Augusta Co. |
Date of Enlistment: 5/1/1862 Place of Enlistment: West View Age at Enlistment: Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer Conscript or Substitute: |
Service Information | Military Service Record |
Rank: Pvt. Company: B Transfer Company: Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf. |
Promotions: Transfers and Other Service:Served in Capt. Hall's Co. 32nd Va. Militia Muster Sheet: In arrest Orange Courthouse 10-01-1863 to 10-31-1863 Captured: Missing In Action: Prison: AWOL: Deserted: Discharge: Paroled: // Notes: Organic disease of the heart and thoratic aneurysm of many years standing |
Wounded/Killed Information | Other Information |
Died of Disease: Killed in Action: Wounded in Action: - // Hospital: Debilitas, hosp. Richmond 11-03-1863; sent to Castle Thunder 11-05-1863 with "accidental pistol wound in groin" Died of Wounds: |
Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney Family Number from 1860 census: 810 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Dwelling Number from 1860 census: 799 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Postwar Life: 1870 Census, Farmer, age 37, Fishersville Post Office
obituary states he was a sharpshooter Death Place: Lyndhurst Augusta Co. Date of Death: 3/16/1920 Cause of Death: Burial Place: Bethlehem Church Cemetery Ladd Augusta Co. Epitaph: |