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:31360).

Personal Information Enlistment Records

Name: Joseph Lemuel Liggett

Birth Place: Moorfield Hardy Co. Virginia

Date of Birth: 8/31/1840

Physical Description:

Prewar Life:

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: Pvt.

Company: B

Transfer Company:

Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf.

Promotions:

Transfers and Other Service:Detailed as wagoner 08-08-1862; detailed as teamster in regimental train 11-00-1862, 12-00-1862

Muster Sheet: Present 11-00-1861 to 04-00-1862; present 05-01-1862 to 10-31-1862

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Missing In Action:

Prison:

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Deserted:

Discharge:

Paroled: 4/25/1865

Notes:

Wounded/Killed Information Other Information

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Killed in Action:

Wounded in Action: - //

Hospital:

Died of Wounds:

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: 1870 Census, Farmhand, age 29, Fishersville Post Office, Augusta Co.; farmer Stuart's Draft 25 years; moved to Navarel Kansas 1884 obituary states he was a sharpshooter

Death Place: Herrington Kansas

Date of Death: 6/26/1920

Cause of Death:

Burial Place: Sunset Hill Cemetery Herrington Kansas

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