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:30704).

Personal Information Enlistment Records

Name: Charles B. Carter

Birth Place: Virginia

Date of Birth: 8/31/1840

Physical Description:

Prewar Life:1860 Census, Shoemaker, age 35, Waynesboro, Augusta Co.

Date of Enlistment: 7/15/1861

Place of Enlistment: Waynesboro

Age at Enlistment:

Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer

Conscript or Substitute:

Service Information Military Service Record

Rank: Pvt.

Company: B

Transfer Company:

Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf.

Promotions:

Transfers and Other Service:Detailed as nurse at hosp. Jordan Springs 06-18-1863 to 07-25-1863

Muster Sheet: Present 03-00-1863, 04-00-1863; absent sick 06-13-1863 to 06-17-1863; present 09-00-1863 to 06-13-1864; present 12-07-1864 to 12-31-1864

Captured:

Missing In Action:

Prison:

AWOL:

Deserted:

Discharge:

Paroled: 4/29/1865

Notes:

Wounded/Killed Information Other Information

Died of Disease:

Killed in Action:

Wounded in Action: Bethesda Church, breast - 5/30/1864

Hospital: Fever, hosp. Staunton 08-14-1863 to 08-31-1863; debilitas, hosp. Richmond 06-14-1864 to 06-30-1864; "fever in btub" and diarrhea, transf. hosp. at Staunton 07-27-1864; "ascites," hosp. Richmond 02-10-1865

Died of Wounds:

Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney

Family Number from 1860 census: 1950 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record)

Dwelling Number from 1860 census: 1945 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record)

Postwar Life: obituary states he was a sharpshooter

Death Place: Batesville Albemarle Co.

Date of Death: 5/4/1871

Cause of Death:

Burial Place: Riverview Cemetery Waynesboro

Epitaph: