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Name: John S. Robson
Birth Place: Rappahannock Co.
Date of Birth: 8/31/1840
Physical Description:
Prewar Life:Student Charlottesville
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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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Rank: 3rd Cpl.
Company: D
Transfer Company:
Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf.
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Promotions: To 2nd Cpl. 08-30-1864
Transfers and Other Service:
Muster Sheet: Present 07-16-1861 to 04-00-1862; reenlisted 05-01-1862; present 05-01-1862 to 12-00-1862; present 01-00-1863 to 12-00-1863, took regimental colors from dying color bearer 05-05-1863; present 04-30-1864 to 10-00-1864; absent wounded 11-00-1864, 12-00-1864
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Wounded in Action: Cedar Creek, leg , while acting as courier for Gen. Pegram, leg amputated - 10/19/1864
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Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney
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Postwar Life: 1870 Census, Medical Student, 3rd District, Augusta Co.; wrote How a One Legged Rebel Lives, 1876; farmer, Mossy Creek Augusta Co. 1889-1902
obituary states he was a sharpshooter
Death Place: Amissville Rappahannock Co.
Date of Death: 6//1920
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