Soldiers Records

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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:30980).

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Personal Information Enlistment Records

Name: Mathias A. Fox

Birth Place: Highland Co.

Date of Birth: 8/31/1840

Physical Description:

Prewar Life:Resident Sangersville Augusta Co.

Date of Enlistment: 7/16/1861

Place of Enlistment: Staunton

Age at Enlistment:

Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer

Conscript or Substitute:

Service Information Military Service Record

Rank: Pvt.

Company: D

Transfer Company:

Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf.

Promotions:

Transfers and Other Service:

Muster Sheet: Present 07-16-1861 to 12-00-1861; present 03-00-1862, 04-00-1862; reenlisted 05-01-1862; absent wounded through 08-31-1862; present 01-00-1863 to 12-00-1863; present 06-00-1864 to 10-00-1864

Captured:

Missing In Action:

Prison:

AWOL:

Deserted:

Discharge:

Paroled: //

Notes: Illiterate

Wounded/Killed Information Other Information

Died of Disease:

Killed in Action:

Wounded in Action: Gaines Mill, finger and left leg; Wilderness, arm 05-06-1864 - 6/27/1862

Hospital: Sick, hosp. Staunton 01-02-1862 to 02-00-1862

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: Laborer in Sangersville obituary states he was a sharpshooter

Death Place: Rockingham Co.

Date of Death: 11/25/1912

Cause of Death:

Burial Place: Otterbine EUB Church Cemetery on Route 613 Rockingham Co.

Epitaph:

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