Name: Joseph Solomon Phillips
Birth Place: Augusta Co.
Date of Birth: 8/31/1840
Physical Description:
Prewar Life:1860 Census, Farmhand, age 25, Collierstown Post Office, Rockbridge Co.
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Date of Enlistment: 8/1/1861
Place of Enlistment: Staunton
Age at Enlistment:
Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer
Conscript or Substitute:
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Rank: Pvt.
Company: E
Transfer Company:
Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf.
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Promotions:
Transfers and Other Service:
Muster Sheet: Present 11-00-1861 to 04-00-1862; reenlisted 05-01-1862; absent wounded through 02-00-1863; present 03-00-1863 to 12-00-1863
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Died of Disease:
Killed in Action:
Wounded in Action: Sharpsburg, head and arm - 9/17/1862
Hospital: "Morb. var.," hosp. Charlottesville 08-11-1862 to 08-22-1862
Died of Wounds:
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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)
Dwelling Number from 1860 census: (Click on number to see the 1860 census record)
Postwar Life: 1870 Census, Farmer, age 35, Natural Bridge District, Rockbridge Co.
obituary states he was a sharpshooter
Death Place: Collierstown
Date of Death: 1/21/1914
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Burial Place: Collierstown Presbyterian Church Cemetery
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