Name: Joseph Samuel Paxton
Birth Place: On James River Rockbridge Co.
Date of Birth: 8/31/1840
Physical Description:
Prewar Life:1860 Census, Farmer, age 19, South River District, Rockbridge Co.
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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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Rank: 1st Lt.
Company: E
Transfer Company:
Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf.
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Promotions: Reelected 2nd Lt. 05-01-1862; to 1st Lt. 11-03-1863
Transfers and Other Service:Commanding Co. K 10-31-1864; Capt., Co. E 108th Va. Militia 00-00-66
Muster Sheet: Present 11-00-1861 to 02-00-1862; absent sick 03-00-1862, 04-00-1862; present 10-00-1862; present 01-00-1863 to 10-00-1863; present 12-31-1863; absent wounded 06-00-1864; present 07-00-1864 to 12-00-1864; absent on leave 02-19-1865 to 02-28-1865
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Wounded in Action: Spotsylvania Courthouse ; Bethesda Church, thigh 05-30-1864 - 5/12/1864
Hospital: "eryesificlas," hosp. Farmville, admitted 03-17-1865; transf. hosp. Lynchburg 03-28-1865
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Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney
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Postwar Life: Farmer, Stockraiser, merchant, Sherwood; Clerk of the Road Board and Commissioner of Revenue, Natural Bridge District 1888; member Lee-Jackson Camp C. V. Lexington
obituary states he was a sharpshooter
Death Place: Buena Vista
Date of Death: 12/25/1906
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Burial Place: Falling Spring Presbyterian Church Cemetery
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