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:30987).

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Personal Information Enlistment Records

Name: Joseph Frey

Birth Place: Virginia

Date of Birth: 8/31/1840

Physical Description:

Prewar Life:Laborer Augusta Co.

Date of Enlistment: 8/2/1861

Place of Enlistment: Staunton

Age at Enlistment:

Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer

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Service Information Military Service Record

Rank: 4th Sgt.

Company: G

Transfer Company:

Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf.

Promotions: Elected 2nd Lt. 03-15-1863

Transfers and Other Service:Detached service hunting deserters 06-00-1863 to 08-00-1863

Muster Sheet: Present 11-00-1861 to 04-00-1862; reenlisted 05-01-1862; present 05-01-1862 to 10-31-1862; present 11-00-1862, 12-00-1862, rank shown as 1st Sgt.; present 01-00-1863 to 05-00-1863

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Wounded/Killed Information Other Information

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Killed in Action:

Wounded in Action: Spotsylvania Courthouse, left arm; Winchester 09-19-1864 - 5/12/1864

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Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney

Family Number from 1860 census: (Click on number to see the 1860 census record)

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Postwar Life: Died age 27 obituary states he was a sharpshooter

Death Place:

Date of Death: 9/23/1864

Cause of Death:

Burial Place: Old Salem Lutheran Church Cemetery, 3 miles west of Mt. Sidney

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