Soldiers Records

From Compiled Military Service Records at National Archives

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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:31299).

Personal Information Enlistment Records

Name: Clinton M. King

Birth Place: Missouri

Date of Birth: 8/31/1840

Physical Description:

Prewar Life:1860 Census, Merchant, age 25, Waynesboro, Augusta Co.

Date of Enlistment: 7/15/1861

Place of Enlistment: Waynesboro

Age at Enlistment:

Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer

Conscript or Substitute:

Service Information Military Service Record

Rank: 3rd Lt.

Company: B

Transfer Company:

Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf.

Promotions: To 1st Lt. 05-12-1862; reelected 05-01-1862

Transfers and Other Service:

Muster Sheet: Absent sick 11-16-1861 to 01-16-1862; present 01-17-1862 to 02-00-1862; absent on leave 03-00-1862, 04-00-1862

Captured:

Missing In Action:

Prison:

AWOL:

Deserted:

Discharge:

Paroled: //

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Wounded/Killed Information Other Information

Died of Disease:

Killed in Action:

Wounded in Action: - //

Hospital:

Died of Wounds:

Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney

Family Number from 1860 census: 1953 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record)

Dwelling Number from 1860 census: 1948 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record)

Postwar Life: obituary states he was a sharpshooter

Death Place: Cross Keys age 26

Date of Death: 6/8/1862

Cause of Death:

Burial Place: Riverview Cemetery Waynesboro

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