Soldiers Records

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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:31553).

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Personal Information Enlistment Records

Name: William Henry McNett

Birth Place: Ross Co. Ohio

Date of Birth: 8/31/1840

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Date of Enlistment: 7/16/1861

Place of Enlistment: Staunton

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Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer

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Service Information Military Service Record

Rank: Pvt.

Company: D

Transfer Company:

Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf.

Promotions: To 3rd Sgt. 05-01-1862; reduced to Pvt.

Transfers and Other Service:Joined 3rd Md. Cav. U. S. Army 09-22-1863

Muster Sheet: Present 07-16-1861 to 04-00-1862; reenlisted 05-01-1862; present 05-01-1862 to 08-31-1862; present in arrest 01-00-1863, 02-00-1863; present 03-00-1863, 04-00-1863; fined by court-martial 3 months pay in addition to 1 month and 1 day AWOL and reduced to Pvt.

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Notes: In flyleaf of his Bible, William H. McNett Comp. D 52 Va. Inf. received at General Jackson's headquarters April the 12th 1862 year of our Lord. General Jackson's horse was in some danger and he moved it and Gen. Jackson gave him the Bible.

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Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney

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Postwar Life: 1870 Census, Farmhand, age 31, Mt. Sidney Post Office, Augusta Co.; millwright Sangersville obituary states he was a sharpshooter

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Date of Death: 9/8/1906

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