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Name: William T. East
Birth Place: Rockbridge Co.
Date of Birth: 8/31/1840
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Date of Enlistment: 7/16/1861
Place of Enlistment: Staunton
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Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer
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Rank: Pvt.
Company: C
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Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf.
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Transfers and Other Service:Detailed as nurse and guard in hosp. Richmond and Staunton 04-30-1863 to 12-31-1864
Muster Sheet: Present 11-00-1861, 12-00-1861; absent on leave with train of sick 02-26-1862; present 03-00-1862, 04-00-1862; reenlisted 05-01-1862; absent sick with hernia 08-27-1862 to 08-00-1863
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Paroled: 5/10/1865
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Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney
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Postwar Life: 1870 Census, Laborer, age 38, 1st District, Augusta Co.
obituary states he was a sharpshooter
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