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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:30750).
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Name: William Nelson Clarke Birth Place: Augusta Co. Date of Birth: 8/31/1840 Physical Description: Prewar Life:1860 Census, Farmhand, age 16, New Hope, Augusta Co. |
Date of Enlistment: 7/15/1861 Place of Enlistment: Waynesboro Age at Enlistment: Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer Conscript or Substitute: |
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Rank: Pvt. Company: B Transfer Company: Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf. |
Promotions: Transfers and Other Service:Enl. in Capt. Avis's Co. Provost Guard Staunton 05-27-1863 Muster Sheet: Absent sick 11-00-1861 to 02-00-1862; present 03-00-1862, 04-00-1862; reenlisted 05-01-1862; present in Capt. Avis's Co. Provost Guard through 10-31-1864 Captured: Missing In Action: Prison: AWOL: Deserted: Discharge: Paroled: // Notes: |
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Died of Disease: Killed in Action: Wounded in Action: - // Hospital: Died of Wounds: |
Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney Family Number from 1860 census: 1550 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Dwelling Number from 1860 census: 1545 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Postwar Life: 1870 Census, Farmer, age 24, Mt. Sidney Post Office, Augusta Co.; member Stonewall Jackson Camp C. V. Staunton
obituary states he was a sharpshooter Death Place: Augusta Co. Date of Death: 5/13/1910 Cause of Death: Burial Place: Laurel Hill Baptist Church Cemetery Epitaph: |