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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:31300).
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Name: Alexander Fisher Kinney Birth Place: Staunton Date of Birth: 8/31/1840 Physical Description: Prewar Life:1860 Census, Clerk of Circuit Court, age 24, Staunton |
Date of Enlistment: // Place of Enlistment: Age at Enlistment: Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer Conscript or Substitute: |
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Rank: Lt. Company: Transfer Company: Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf. |
Promotions: To 1st Lt. and Adj. of regt. 12-21-1864 Transfers and Other Service:Orderly Sgt., Co. C 160th Va. Militia; Enl. Staunton Arty. 00-00-1861 as Lt.; served as Clerk in office of Surgeon S. S. Lewis, Surgeon in Charge, Staunton Hospital 11-00-1862 to 12-00-1863; acting Commissary Officer of 52nd 03-00-1864 Muster Sheet: Captured: Missing In Action: Prison: AWOL: Deserted: Discharge: Paroled: // Notes: |
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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: 173 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Dwelling Number from 1860 census: 159 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Postwar Life: Collector of Customs and Disbursing Agent of the Treasury for the District of Staunton 4th Quarter 1864; teller, Valley National Bank, Staunton 1865-1903
obituary states he was a sharpshooter Death Place: Staunton Date of Death: 5/12/1904 Cause of Death: Burial Place: Thornrose Cemetery Epitaph: |