Name: James Olin Hobbs
Birth Place: Covington Allegheny Co.
Date of Birth: 8/31/1840
Physical Description:
Prewar Life:
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Date of Enlistment: 7/31/1861
Place of Enlistment: Staunton
Age at Enlistment:
Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer
Conscript or Substitute:
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Rank: Pvt.
Company: L
Transfer Company:
Regiment: 5th Va. Inf.
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Promotions: To 2nd Lt. 06-01-1863
Transfers and Other Service:Transf. to Co. F 04-26-82
Muster Sheet: After being wounded at Spotsylvania applied for retirement to Invalid Corps; spent remainder of war on leave
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Died of Disease:
Killed in Action:
Wounded in Action: Kernstown, knocked down by shell; Spotsylvania, ball entered the buttocks and passed through the lower third of the thigh 05-12-1864 - 3/23/1862
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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)
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Postwar Life: Traveling salesman
obituary states he was a sharpshooter
Death Place:
Date of Death: 8/20/1916
Cause of Death:
Burial Place: Thornrose Cemetery Staunton
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