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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:30944).
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Name: William Davis Ewing Birth Place: Rockingham Co. Date of Birth: 8/31/1840 Physical Description: Prewar Life:Attended Washington College 1849-1850; University of Virginia, Jefferson Medical College Philadelphia Penn.; 1860 Census, Doctor, age 29, 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., Asst. Surgeon Company: G, Field a Transfer Company: Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf. |
Promotions: Acting Hosp. Steward of Regt. 01-00-1863 to 01-00-1864; appointed Hosp. Steward by Sec. of War 01-19-1864 Transfers and Other Service:Detailed as hosp. steward 03-00-1862, 04-00-1862; on extra duty 04-30-1862 to 08-31-1862; on extra duty as Asst. Surgeon 09-00-1862 to 12-00-1862 Muster Sheet: Present 11-00-1861 to 02-00-1862 Captured: Missing In Action: Prison: AWOL: Deserted: Discharge: Paroled: // Notes: |
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Died of Disease: Killed in Action: Wounded in Action: - // Hospital: West Building Hospital Baltimore Died of Wounds: |
Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney Family Number from 1860 census: 1126 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Dwelling Number from 1860 census: 1121 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Postwar Life: 1870 Census, Doctor, age 35, Mt. Sidney Post Office, Augusta Co.; doctor and farmer Weyer's Cave 1897
obituary states he was a sharpshooter Death Place: Weyer's Cave Date of Death: 1/22/1902 Cause of Death: Burial Place: Mt. Horeb Presbyterian Church Cemetery Epitaph: |