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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:30964).
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Name: William Jackson Fix Birth Place: Augusta Co. Date of Birth: 8/31/1840 Physical Description: Prewar Life:1860 Census, Wagonmaker, age 34, Buffalo Gap, Augusta Co. |
Date of Enlistment: 7/16/1861 Place of Enlistment: Staunton Age at Enlistment: Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer Conscript or Substitute: |
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Rank: Pvt. Company: C Transfer Company: Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf. |
Promotions: Transfers and Other Service:Detailed as blacksmith with ordnance train 07-16-1863 to 12-31-1863 Muster Sheet: Present 11-00-1861, 12-00-1861; fined by court-martial; present 03-00-1862, 04-00-1862; reenlisted 05-01-1862; present 05-01-1862 to 07-00-1863 Captured: Missing In Action: Prison: AWOL: Deserted: Discharge: Paroled: // Notes: Volunteered 7/16/61 for 12 months. Was conscripted at expiration of enlistment. His wife and five small children are at Buffalo Gap, Augusta Co., Va. and are in destitute circumstances. He desires to go to Frederick City, Md., where he has friends residing, there to make some arrangements to remove his family if practicable, to a place of safety where they have the benefit of his labor and support. Born in Va., 37 years old, was always opposed to the course of the South, wished to take the Oath and go to Pittsburg, Penn. |
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Died of Disease: Killed in Action: Wounded in Action: - // Hospital: Died of Wounds: |
Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney Family Number from 1860 census: 1548 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Dwelling Number from 1860 census: 1579 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Postwar Life: 1870 Census, Wagonmaker, age 41, Augusta Springs, Augusta Co.
obituary states he was a sharpshooter Death Place: Near Pond Gap Augusta Co. Date of Death: 1/17/1901 Cause of Death: Burial Place: Shemiriah Presbyterian Church Cemetery Epitaph: |