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Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War, Virginia Center for Digital History, University of Virginia
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Personal Information Enlistment Records

Name: Cyrus Benton "Bent" Coiner

Birth Place: Fishersville Augusta Co.

Date of Birth: 8/31/1840

Physical Description:

Prewar Life:Attended Virginia Military Institute 1860-1861

Date of Enlistment: 8/2/1861

Place of Enlistment: Staunton

Age at Enlistment:

Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer

Conscript or Substitute:

Service Information Military Service Record

Rank: 1st Lt.

Company: G

Transfer Company:

Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf.

Promotions: Elected 1st Lt. 05-01-1862; commanding regt. 01-28-1865 to 01-31-1865; to Capt. 12-02-1864

Transfers and Other Service:Drillmaster Richmond 04-00-1861 to 06-00-1861

Muster Sheet: Present 01-00-1862 to 04-00-1862; commanding Co. 05-01-1862 to 08-31-1862; present 10-00-1862 to 12-00-1862; absent on leave 02-22-1863 to 02-28-1863; present 04-00-1863 to 12-00-1863; commanding Co. 04-30-1864 to 05-18-1864; returned to duty 07-00-1864 after Monocacy; commanding Co. 07-00-1864 to 12-00-1864; absent on leave 02-17-1865 to 02-25-1865

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Missing In Action:

Prison:

AWOL:

Deserted:

Discharge:

Paroled: 5/15/1865

Notes: Escaped at Appomattox 04-09-65

Wounded/Killed Information Other Information

Died of Disease:

Killed in Action:

Wounded in Action: Near Spotsylvania Courthouse, through cheeks - 5/18/1864

Hospital:

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: Farmer and Stockraiser in Fishersville; member Stonewall Jackson Camp C. V. Staunton obituary states he was a sharpshooter

Death Place: Fishersville

Date of Death: 4/8/1919

Cause of Death:

Burial Place: Tinkling Spring Presbyterian Church Cemetery near Fishersville

Epitaph:

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