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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:30774).
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Name: Benjamin Franklin Coffman Birth Place: Virginia Date of Birth: 8/31/1840 Physical Description: Prewar Life:1860 Census, Farmhand, age 17, Burkes Mill District, Augusta Co. |
Date of Enlistment: 8/2/1861 Place of Enlistment: Staunton Age at Enlistment: Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer Conscript or Substitute: |
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Rank: Pvt. Company: G Transfer Company: Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf. |
Promotions: Transfers and Other Service: Muster Sheet: Absent sick 12-11-1861 to 04-00-1862; absent on leave 04-30-1862 to 08-31-1862; present 09-01-1862 to 04-00-1863; present in arrest 09-25-1863 to 12-31-1863; court-martialed 01-19-1864; sentence remitted 07-07-1864 Captured: Missing In Action: Prison: AWOL: Deserted: Discharge: Paroled: // Notes: At Point Lookout, 16 years old and wants to take oath and go to his sister's in Pa. Applied to take oath 08-00-64; Will be 17 on the 10th of October 1864. Attempted to desert 7/23/63 but was captured and kept in prison 9 months. Was resident of Harrisonburg at release. |
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Died of Disease: Killed in Action: Wounded in Action: Near Spotsylvania Courthouse - 5/20/1864 Hospital: "catarrhs," hosp. Richmond, 03-07-1864 to 03-09-1864 Died of Wounds: |
Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney Family Number from 1860 census: 1302 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Dwelling Number from 1860 census: 1297 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Postwar Life:
obituary states he was a sharpshooter Death Place: Date of Death: // Cause of Death: Burial Place: Old Coffman Cemetery, 1 mile north of Barren Ridge, Augusta Co., on farm of John C. Driver Epitaph: |