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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:31057).
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Name: Elijah Pipes Grim Birth Place: Augusta Co. Date of Birth: 8/31/1840 Physical Description: Prewar Life:1860 Census, Potter, age 21, Staunton |
Date of Enlistment: 7/16/1861 Place of Enlistment: Staunton Age at Enlistment: Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer Conscript or Substitute: |
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Rank: Pvt. Company: I Transfer Company: Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf. |
Promotions: Transfers and Other Service:Enl. Co. I 14th Va. Cav. 08-16-1862; detailed as courier and mail carrier 09-01-1862 to 04-30-1863; on detail without proper authority 12-31-1863 to 08-31-1864 Muster Sheet: Absent sick 11-00-1861 to 02-00-1862; present 03-00-1862, 04-00-1862; reenlisted 05-01-1862;Absent, on detached service as courier and mail carrier 09-01-1862 through 04-30-1863; Absent, on detached duty without proper authority 12-31-1863 through 08-31-1864; Dropped as deserter 12-00-1864 Captured: Missing In Action: Prison: AWOL: Deserted: Discharge: Paroled: // Notes: |
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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: 1230 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Dwelling Number from 1860 census: 1237 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Postwar Life: Farmer Augusta Co. 1866
obituary states he was a sharpshooter Death Place: Augusta Co. Date of Death: 12/4/1908 Cause of Death: Burial Place: McKinley Methodist Church Cemetery Augusta Co. Epitaph: |