Name: Robert Steele Hite
Birth Place: St. Mary's Creek Augusta Co.
Date of Birth: 8/31/1840
Physical Description:
Prewar Life:1860 Census, Farmer, age 28, 6th District, Rockbridge Co.
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Date of Enlistment: 4/11/1862
Place of Enlistment: Rude's Hill
Age at Enlistment:
Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer
Conscript or Substitute:
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Rank: Pvt.
Company: E
Transfer Company:
Regiment: 5th Va. Inf.
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Promotions:
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Muster Sheet: Returned 09-03-1862 after being wounded at Gaines Mill; never returned to Co. after being in hosp. at Winchester; exempt 03-00-1862; instructed 04-21-1864 to report to Mt. Torry Blast Furnace and to indicate his presence by letter to J. R. Anderson & Co., Richmond
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Died of Disease:
Killed in Action:
Wounded in Action: Gaines Mill, slightly in thigh; Kearneysville, chest 10-16-1862 - 6/27/1862
Hospital: Sick, hosp. at Winchester 07-27-1863
Died of Wounds:
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Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney
Family Number from 1860 census: (Click on number to see the 1860 census record)
Dwelling Number from 1860 census: (Click on number to see the 1860 census record)
Postwar Life: 1870 Census, Farmer, age 39, South River District, Rockbridge Co. Methodist minister in Blue Ridge area 1870
obituary states he was a sharpshooter
Death Place: Fairfield
Date of Death: 5/9/1905
Cause of Death:
Burial Place: Haines Chapel Cemetery
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