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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:31364).
Personal Information | Enlistment Records |
Name: James Campbell Lilley Birth Place: Augusta Co. Date of Birth: 8/31/1840 Physical Description: Prewar Life:1860 Census, Surveyor, age 16, 1st District, Augusta Co. |
Date of Enlistment: 7/16/1861 Place of Enlistment: Staunton Age at Enlistment: Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer Conscript or Substitute: |
Service Information | Military Service Record |
Rank: 4th Sgt. Company: I Transfer Company: Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf. |
Promotions: Resigned as Sgt.; appointed 5th Sgt. 10-31-1864 Transfers and Other Service:Detailed as Courier, Gen. Jackson, 07-23-1862; detailed as Courier 04-30-1863 to 12-00-1863; with Sharpshooters 07-26-1864 to 10-31-1864 Muster Sheet: Absent sick 11-00-1861 to 01-03-1862; present 01-04-1862 to 04-00-1862; present 08-30-1863 to 10-31-1863; present 04-30-1864 to 07-25-1864; absent with sharpshooters 07-26-1864 to 10-31-1864; present 11-00-1864, 12-00-1864 Captured: Missing In Action: Prison: AWOL: Deserted: Discharge: Paroled: 5/23/1865 Notes: |
Wounded/Killed Information | Other Information |
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: 109 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Dwelling Number from 1860 census: 107 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Postwar Life: Studied engineering under Jed Hotchkiss and at Washington College 1871-1872; civil engineer, City Engineer of Staunton; railroad engineer C & O and Mexican Central Railroads
obituary states he was a sharpshooter Death Place: Mexico City Mexico Date of Death: 10/26/1901 Cause of Death: Burial Place: Mexico City Mexico Epitaph: |