Soldiers Records

From Compiled Military Service Records at National Archives

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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:31689).

Personal Information Enlistment Records

Name: David W. Riner

Birth Place: Green Co.

Date of Birth: 8/31/1840

Physical Description:

Prewar Life:Farmer

Date of Enlistment: 8/2/1861

Place of Enlistment: Staunton

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Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer

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Service Information Military Service Record

Rank: Pvt.

Company: G

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Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf.

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Transfers and Other Service:Detailed on hosp. duty 02-19-1863 to 12-31-1863

Muster Sheet: Present 11-00-1861; absent sick 12-17-1861 to 04-00-1862; absent wounded through 02-00-1863; retired for disability 02-10-1865, age 36

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Wounded/Killed Information Other Information

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Wounded in Action: Cedar Creek, right arm broken, arm amputated at shoulder joint - 10/19/1864

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Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney

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Postwar Life: Receiving pension Louisa Co. 04-09-88, age 60 obituary states he was a sharpshooter

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