Soldiers Records

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Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War, Virginia Center for Digital History, University of Virginia
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Personal Information Enlistment Records

Name: John Franklin Ruley

Birth Place: Rockbridge Co.

Date of Birth: 8/31/1840

Physical Description:

Prewar Life:1860 Census, Farmhand, Lexington District, Rockbridge Co.

Date of Enlistment: 8/1/1861

Place of Enlistment: Staunton

Age at Enlistment:

Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer

Conscript or Substitute:

Service Information Military Service Record

Rank: 4th Sgt.

Company: E

Transfer Company:

Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf.

Promotions: Rank shown as 2nd Cpl. 10-00-1862; to 4th Sgt. 02-01-1863

Transfers and Other Service:

Muster Sheet: Present 11-00-1861 to 04-00-1862; reenlisted 05-01-1862; present 10-00-1862; absent on leave 02-19-1863 for 16 days; present 04-00-1863 to 12-00-1863; absent wounded through 12-31-1864

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Prison:

AWOL:

Deserted:

Discharge:

Paroled: 4/11/1865

Notes:

Wounded/Killed Information Other Information

Died of Disease:

Killed in Action:

Wounded in Action: Sharpsburg; Bethesda Church, left hip 05-30-1864 - 9/17/1862

Hospital:

Died of Wounds:

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: obituary states he was a sharpshooter

Death Place: Huntington W. Va.

Date of Death: 12/23/1884

Cause of Death:

Burial Place: Rapps Presbyterian Church Cemetery Rockbridge Co.

Epitaph:

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