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Name: Arthur T. Grooms
Birth Place: Mt. Sidney Augusta Co.
Date of Birth: 8/31/1840
Physical Description:
Prewar Life:
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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: G
Transfer Company:
Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf.
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Promotions:
Transfers and Other Service:
Muster Sheet: Absent on leave 04-30-1862 to 08-31-1862; present 09-01-1862 to 11-23-1862; present in arrest 12-19-1862 to 02-00-1863; fined 2 months and 24 days pay by sentence of court-martial; present 03-00-1863, 04-00-1863
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Missing In Action:
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Discharge:
Paroled: 8/24/1863
Notes:
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Died of Disease:
Killed in Action:
Wounded in Action: Gettysburg, left arm, arm amputated above the elbow - 7/3/1863
Hospital: Decamp General Hospital David's Island N.Y.
Died of Wounds:
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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)
Dwelling Number from 1860 census: (Click on number to see the 1860 census record)
Postwar Life: 1870 Census, Constable, age 32, 2nd District, Augusta Co.; tollgate keeper and farmer in Mt. Sidney 1877; member Stonewall Jackson Camp C. V. Staunton; admitted to Lee Camp Soldiers Home Richmond 12-22-09
obituary states he was a sharpshooter
Death Place: Lee Camp Soldiers Home Richmond age 73
Date of Death: 5/4/1911
Cause of Death:
Burial Place: Hollywood Cemetery
Epitaph:
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