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Personal Information Enlistment Records

Name: William Harvey Lackey

Birth Place: Wabash Co. Indiana

Date of Birth: 8/31/1840

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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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Service Information Military Service Record

Rank: Pvt. and Ensign

Company: E and Fiel

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Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf.

Promotions: To 5th Sgt. 01-10-1863; appointed Ensign 04-12-1864

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Muster Sheet: Present 05-01-1862 to 10-00-1862; absent on leave 02-19-1863 to 02-28-1863; present 03-00-1863 to 12-00-1863; present 04-00-1864 to 10-00-1864; absent sick 12-25-1864 to 02-26-1865

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Notes: Recommended for Ensign of Regt. by Col. Skinner, and endorsed by Col. Hoffman, Commanding the Brig., Gen. Early, Gen. Ewell, and Gen. R. E. Lee. I recommend, to his Excellency the President, Sgt. William H. Lackey, of Co. E of this Rgt., a resident of Rockbridge Co. and a citizen of Va. for appointment to the office of 'Ensign' of the Rgt. Sgt. Lackey is a gallant and otherwise meritorious youth, who has borne the colors of the Rgt. for upwards of a year past, having volunteered to do so at a time when it being a 'post of danger' alone made it a 'post of honor.' The rank now attached to the office is therefore clearly his own. Obituary states . . . present entire war, never missed a roll call, bore Reg'l colors in 38 battles and 13 other engagements without receiving a scratch, not withstanding the fact that the flag was shot from his hand time and time again and his clothing was preferated with bullets.

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Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney

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Postwar Life: Moved to Kansas and back to Glasgow Rockbridge Co. 1890s obituary states he was a sharpshooter

Death Place: Roanoke

Date of Death: 5/29/1892

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