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:30649).

Personal Information Enlistment Records

Name: David Bunch

Birth Place: Virginia

Date of Birth: 8/31/1840

Physical Description:

Prewar Life:1860 Census, Carpenter, age 32, Burkes Mill District, Augusta Co.

Date of Enlistment: 9/1/1862

Place of Enlistment: Staunton

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Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer

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Service Information Military Service Record

Rank: Pvt.

Company: A

Transfer Company:

Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf.

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Transfers and Other Service:Pvt. in Capt. Shoemaker's Co. K 32nd Va. Militia 03-00-1862, exempt because of piles; detailed as nurse in hosp. Staunton 05-18-1863 to 12-31-1864

Muster Sheet: Absent sick 11-10-1862 to 12-31-1862; present 01-00-1863 to 04-00-1863

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Wounded/Killed Information Other Information

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Wounded in Action: Hatchers Run; Petersburg, forearm 03-29-1865 - 2/6/1865

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Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney

Family Number from 1860 census: 1296 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record)

Dwelling Number from 1860 census: 1291 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record)

Postwar Life: 1870 Census, Carpenter, age 46, 2nd District, Augusta Co. obituary states he was a sharpshooter

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