Name: Absalom Richard Ross
Birth Place: Augusta Co.
Date of Birth: 8/31/1840
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Prewar Life:Carpenter Waynesboro
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Date of Enlistment: 7/15/1861
Place of Enlistment: Waynesboro
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Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer
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Rank: Pvt.
Company: B
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Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf.
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Muster Sheet: Present 11-00-1861, 12-00-1861; present 03-00-1862, 04-00-1862; absent sick with "ulcus" 04-29-1863; absent because of thigh wound 12-31-1864
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Wounded in Action: Bethesda Church, side - 5/30/1864
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Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney
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Postwar Life: 1870 Census, Farmer, age 38, 2nd District, Augusta Co.; entered Old Soldiers' Home Richmond 07-04-98, age 61; left 06-15-00
obituary states he was a sharpshooter
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