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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:31152).
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Name: William C. Hemp Birth Place: Augusta Co. Date of Birth: 8/31/1840 Physical Description: Prewar Life:1860 Census, Farmer, age 24, 1st District, Augusta Co. |
Date of Enlistment: 5/1/1862 Place of Enlistment: Shenandoah Mt. Age at Enlistment: Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer Conscript or Substitute: |
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Rank: Pvt. Company: C Transfer Company: Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf. |
Promotions: Transfers and Other Service:Member Long Meadow Co. Va. Militia, age 27, exempt 03-00-1862 but volunteered; detailed as wagoner 03-00-1863, 04-00-1863 Muster Sheet: Present 04-01-1862 to 04-30-1862; absent wounded through 08-31-1862; present 09-01-1862 to 02-28-1863; present 09-00-1863 to 12-00-1863; present 04-30-1864 to 09-04-1864; present 11-00-1864, 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: Malvern Hill, leg - 7/1/1862 Hospital: Chronic diarrhea, hosp. Gordonsville 06-04-1863 to 08-31-1863; rheumatism, hosp. Richmond 12-13-1863 to 12-31-1863 Died of Wounds: |
Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney Family Number from 1860 census: 1104 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Dwelling Number from 1860 census: 1102 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Postwar Life:
obituary states he was a sharpshooter Death Place: At his home near Annex Augusta Co. Date of Death: 6/24/1865 Cause of Death: Burial Place: Mt. Tabor Lutheran Church Cemetery near Middlebrook Epitaph: |