Soldiers Records

From Compiled Military Service Records at National Archives

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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:31007).

Personal Information Enlistment Records

Name: Abraham Gibson

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Date of Birth: 8/31/1840

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Prewar Life:

Date of Enlistment: //

Place of Enlistment: Staunton

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Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer

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Service Information Military Service Record

Rank: Pvt.

Company: A

Transfer Company:

Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf.

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Transfers and Other Service:Enl. Mallory's Co. Provost Guard Charlottesville 09-07-1863

Muster Sheet: Returned to duty from hosp. 05-07-1864

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Notes: Not on muster rolls

Wounded/Killed Information Other Information

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Wounded in Action: Winchester, hip and arm - 7/19/1864

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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: Living Charlottesville 1908 obituary states he was a sharpshooter

Death Place: Charlottesville

Date of Death: 9/6/1910

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