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Name: Samuel Davidson Gilmore
Birth Place: Kerr's Creek Rockbridge Co.
Date of Birth: 8/31/1840
Physical Description:
Prewar Life:1860 Census, Farmhand, age 24, 5th District, Rockbridge Co.
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Date of Enlistment: 8/1/1861
Place of Enlistment: Staunton
Age at Enlistment:
Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer
Conscript or Substitute:
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Rank: Pvt.
Company: E
Transfer Company:
Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf.
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Promotions: To 4th Sgt. 05-01-1862; to 1st Sgt. 01-01-1863
Transfers and Other Service:On detail in Rockbridge Co. arresting deserters 07-28-1863 to 11-18-1863
Muster Sheet: Present 11-00-1861 to 04-00-1862; reenlisted 05-01-1862; present 07-00-1862 to 07-00-1863; absent wounded through 12-31-1864
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Notes: Farmer, age 28, Kerr's Creek 02-00-64; surrendered Appomattox 04-09-65
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Died of Disease:
Killed in Action:
Wounded in Action: Gaines Mill, shoulder; Winchester 09-19-1864 - 6/27/1862
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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: 1870 Census, Farmer, age 35, South River District, Rockbridge Co.; teacher, merchant, accountant
obituary states he was a sharpshooter
Death Place: Staunton
Date of Death: 3/31/1902
Cause of Death:
Burial Place: Stonewall Jackson Cemetery Lexington
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