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Name: George Henry Landis
Birth Place: Augusta Co.
Date of Birth: 8/31/1840
Physical Description:
Prewar Life:
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Date of Enlistment: 8/2/1861
Place of Enlistment: Staunton
Age at Enlistment:
Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer
Conscript or Substitute:
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Rank: Pvt.
Company: G
Transfer Company:
Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf.
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Promotions:
Transfers and Other Service:Enl. Co. B 23rd Va. Cav. 02-10-1864 Staunton
Muster Sheet: Present 11-00-1861 to 04-00-1862; reenlisted 05-01-1862; absent on leave 05-01-1862 to 08-31-1862; absent wounded through 10-00-1863
Captured:
Missing In Action:
Prison:
AWOL:
Deserted:
Discharge:
Paroled: 5/1/1865
Notes:
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Died of Disease:
Killed in Action:
Wounded in Action: Sharpsburg, thigh and knee - 9/19/1862
Hospital:
Died of Wounds:
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Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney
Family Number from 1860 census: (Click on number to see the 1860 census record)
Dwelling Number from 1860 census: (Click on number to see the 1860 census record)
Postwar Life: Farmer Augusta Co.
obituary states he was a sharpshooter
Death Place:
Date of Death: 9/20/1914
Cause of Death:
Burial Place: Old Salem Lutheran Church Cemetery 3 miles west of Mt. Sidney
Epitaph:
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