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:30697).

Personal Information Enlistment Records

Name: Mathew Bryan Campbell

Birth Place: Rockbridge Co.

Date of Birth: 8/31/1840

Physical Description:

Prewar Life:1860 Census, Farmer, age 26, Lexington District, Rockbridge Co.

Date of Enlistment: 8/1/1861

Place of Enlistment: Staunton

Age at Enlistment:

Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer

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Service Information Military Service Record

Rank: 2nd Lt.

Company: E

Transfer Company:

Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf.

Promotions: To Cpl.; not reelected 05-01-1862

Transfers and Other Service:Enl. as Pvt. in 2nd Rockbridge Arty.

Muster Sheet: Present 11-00-1861 to 04-00-1862

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Discharge:

Paroled: //

Notes: Surrendered Appomattox 04-09-65

Wounded/Killed Information Other Information

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Wounded in Action: - //

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Died of Wounds:

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 36, Natural Bridge District, Rockbridge Co. obituary states he was a sharpshooter

Death Place: Near Buffalo Mills

Date of Death: 5/14/1906

Cause of Death:

Burial Place: Wesley Chapel Cemetery

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