Name: David E. Hughes
Birth Place: Rockbridge Co.
Date of Birth: 8/31/1840
Physical Description:
Prewar Life:1860 Census, Farmhand, age 20, Collierstown Post Office, Rockbridge Co.
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Date of Enlistment: 8/1/1861
Place of Enlistment: Staunton
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Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer
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Rank: Pvt.
Company: E
Transfer Company:
Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf.
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Muster Sheet: Present 11-00-1861 to 04-00-1862; reenlisted 05-01-1862; present 05-01-1862 to 10-31-1862; present in arrest 01-00-1863, 02-00-1863; present 03-00-1863 to 10-00-1863; present 04-30-1864 to 05-21-1864; present 11-00-1864, 12-00-1864
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Wounded in Action: Gettysburg - 7/3/1863
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Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney
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Postwar Life: 1870 Census, Farmer, age 25, near Lexington, Rockbridge Co.; farmer, Kerr's Creek Rockbridge Co. 1884
obituary states he was a sharpshooter
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Burial Place: Collierstown Presbyterian Church Cemetery, no marker
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