Name: William Brambridge or Booker Beard
Birth Place: Rockbridge Co.
Date of Birth: 8/31/1840
Physical Description:
Prewar Life:1860 Census, Farmhand, age 18, Collierstown Post Office, Rockbridge Co.
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Date of Enlistment: 8/1/1861
Place of Enlistment: Staunton
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Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer
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Rank: Pvt.
Company: E
Transfer Company:
Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf.
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Promotions:
Transfers and Other Service:On detached service with Enrolling Officer 11th Congressional District Lexington 04-30-1863 to 12-31-1863
Muster Sheet: Present 11-00-1861 to 04-00-1862; reenlisted 05-01-1862; absent wounded through 10-31-1862; absent on leave 01-00-1863 to 04-00-1863; retired 04-27-1864
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Wounded in Action: Gaines Mill, right leg, leg shortened four inches - 6/27/1862
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Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney
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Postwar Life: 1870 Census, Farmer, age 28, Buffalo District, Rockbridge Co.
obituary states he was a sharpshooter
Death Place: Black Creek near Collierstown
Date of Death: 4/4/1895
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Burial Place: Collierstown Presbyterian Church Cemetery
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