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Name: William Shelton Humphries
Birth Place: Near Vesuvius Rockbridge Co.
Date of Birth: 8/31/1840
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Date of Enlistment: 4/11/1862
Place of Enlistment: Rude's Hill
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Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer
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Rank: Pvt.
Company: E
Transfer Company:
Regiment: 5th Va. Inf.
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Notes: Humphries in 1911 told of his escape from Point Lookout 09-26-64, but this incident is not reflected in U. S. prison records; see CV, XIX, p. 344
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Hospital: Sick, hosp. at Winchester 10-00-1862 to 12-00-1862; hosp. at Chambersburg Pa. 07-05-1863
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Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney
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Postwar Life: 1870 Census, Foundryman, age 26, South River District, Rockbridge Co. Appointed 1st Lt. in Co. G 144th Va. Militia 06-00-66; owner Vesuvius Plow Works 1896
obituary states he was a sharpshooter
Death Place: Vesuvius
Date of Death: 4//1928
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Burial Place: Mt. Carmel Presbyterian Church Cemetery
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