Soldiers Records

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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: John Alexander Fisher

Birth Place: Rockbridge Co.

Date of Birth: 8/31/1840

Physical Description:

Prewar Life:1860 Census, Farmhand, age 17, Lexington Post Office, Rockbridge Co.

Date of Enlistment: 8/1/1861

Place of Enlistment: Staunton

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Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer

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Service Information Military Service Record

Rank: 4th Sgt.

Company: E

Transfer Company:

Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf.

Promotions: To 1st Sgt. 05-01-1862

Transfers and Other Service:Served in militia

Muster Sheet: Present 11-00-1861 to 04-00-1862; reenlisted 05-01-1862

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Wounded/Killed Information Other Information

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Wounded in Action: Cedar Run, right thigh, leg amputated below knee - 8/9/1862

Hospital: Discharged from hosp. Charlottesville 10-06-1862; hosp. Charlottesville 12-31-1864

Died of Wounds:

Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney

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Postwar Life: School teacher in Craigsville Augusta Co. 1888 obituary states he was a sharpshooter

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