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Name: Samuel Austin Hamner
Birth Place: Albemarle Co.
Date of Birth: 8/31/1840
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Date of Enlistment: 7/15/1861
Place of Enlistment: Waynesboro
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Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer
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Rank: Pvt.
Company: B
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Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf.
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Promotions: To 4th Cpl. 10-02-1862; to 2nd Cpl.; to 1st Cpl.
Transfers and Other Service:
Muster Sheet: Present 11-00-1861 to 04-00-1862; reenlisted 05-01-1862; present 11-00-1862 to 04-00-1863; present 04-30-1863 to 08-31-1863; present 09-00-1863 to 12-00-1863; returned to duty 10-29-1864; absent recommended for light duty by Medical Examining Board and sent to Richmond 11-00-1864, 12-00-1864; retired for disability 02-15-1865, age 25
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Wounded in Action: Wilderness; Bethesda Church, through right lung 05-30-1864 - 5/6/1864
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Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney
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Postwar Life: 1870 Census, Resident, age 30, Mt. Sidney Post Office, Augusta Co.
obituary states he was a sharpshooter
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