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Name: James Artemus Jr. Patterson
Birth Place: Waynesboro Augusta Co.
Date of Birth: 8/31/1840
Physical Description:
Prewar Life:
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Date of Enlistment: 7/9/1861
Place of Enlistment: Staunton
Age at Enlistment:
Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer
Conscript or Substitute:
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Rank: Pvt.
Company: A
Transfer Company:
Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf.
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Promotions: Rank shown as 3rd Sgt. 09-17-1862; appointed 1st Assistant Doorkeeper of Confederate Congress, when sufficiently recovered from wound; appointed Maj. by Gen. Breckenridge
Transfers and Other Service:Detailed to recruit for cav. in the Valley and served to end of war
Muster Sheet: Present 11-00-1861 to 04-00-1862; reenlisted 05-01-1862; absent wounded through 12-31-1864
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Notes: brave efficient and fearless
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Died of Disease:
Killed in Action:
Wounded in Action: McDowell, arm; 2nd Manassas 08-29-1862; Sharpsburg, right arm 09-17-1862, arm amputated - 5/8/1862
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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)
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Postwar Life: Merchant, miller, mayor of Waynesboro 6 years; Vice-President Elastic Wheel and Manufacturing Co. Waynesboro 1888; member Waynesboro City Council; member Stonewall Jackson Camp C. V. Staunton
obituary states he was a sharpshooter
Death Place: Waynesboro
Date of Death: 4/27/1918
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Burial Place: Riverview Cemetery Waynesboro
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