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:31005).

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Personal Information Enlistment Records

Name: James H. Gentry

Birth Place: Nelson Co.

Date of Birth: 8/31/1840

Physical Description:

Prewar Life:

Date of Enlistment: 7/15/1861

Place of Enlistment: Waynesboro

Age at Enlistment:

Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer

Conscript or Substitute:

Service Information Military Service Record

Rank: Pvt.

Company: B

Transfer Company:

Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf.

Promotions:

Transfers and Other Service:Detailed Regt. QM Dept. as wagonmaster since 11-01-1862

Muster Sheet: Absent sick 11-00-1861 to 02-00-1862; present 03-00-1862, 04-00-1862; reenlisted 05-01-1862; present 11-00-1862 to 10-00-1864; present 11-00-1864, 12-00-1864

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Prison:

AWOL:

Deserted:

Discharge:

Paroled: //

Notes: Surrendered Appomattox 04-09-65

Wounded/Killed Information Other Information

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: (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: 1870 Census, Cabinetmaker and Lumberman, Mt. Sidney Post Office, Augusta Co.; farmer and cabinetmaker obituary states he was a sharpshooter

Death Place: Near Cave Station Augusta Co.

Date of Death: 2/5/1902

Cause of Death:

Burial Place: Melanchthon Chapel Cemetery near Weyer's Cave

Epitaph:

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