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:31346).

Personal Information Enlistment Records

Name: Samuel Kirkpatrick Lawhorn

Birth Place: Rockbridge Co.

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.

Company: E

Transfer Company:

Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf.

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Muster Sheet: Absent on leave 11-00-1861, 12-00-1861; present 01-00-1862, 02-00-1862; fined $11 by regimental court-martial; present 03-00-1862, 04-00-1862; reenlisted 05-01-1862; absent wounded through 10-31-1862; present 01-00-1863 to 04-00-1863; absent sick 07-20-1863 to 08-31-1863; present 09-00-1863 to 12-00-1863

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Wounded/Killed Information Other Information

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Wounded in Action: Gaines Mill, left hand and lost right eye - 6/27/1862

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Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney

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Postwar Life: 1870 Census, Laborer, age 28, Natural Bridge District, Rockbridge Co.; resident Roanoke 1890 obituary states he was a sharpshooter

Death Place: Roanoke

Date of Death: 10/25/1916

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