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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:31712).
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Name: George Sherman Rusmissel Birth Place: Augusta Co. Date of Birth: 8/31/1840 Physical Description: Prewar Life:1860 Census, Farmhand, Northern District, Augusta Co. |
Date of Enlistment: 7/16/1861 Place of Enlistment: Staunton Age at Enlistment: Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer Conscript or Substitute: |
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Rank: Pvt. Company: C Transfer Company: Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf. |
Promotions: Transfers and Other Service: Muster Sheet: Present 11-00-1861 to 04-00-1862; reenlisted 05-01-1862; absent wounded through 08-31-1862; present 09-00-1862 to 04-00-1863; absent wounded through 08-31-1863 Captured: Missing In Action: Prison: AWOL: Deserted: Discharge: Paroled: // Notes: Wrote letter requesting detail as Clerk in Staunton hosp. 01-05-65 because of rheumatism; surrendered Appomattox Courthouse 04-09-65 |
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Died of Disease: Killed in Action: Wounded in Action: Malvern Hill, hand; Gettysburg 07-03-1863 - 7/1/1862 Hospital: Died of Wounds: |
Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney Family Number from 1860 census: 479 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Dwelling Number from 1860 census: 474 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Postwar Life: 1870 Census, Music Teacher, Craigsville Post Office, Augusta Co.; owner, Iron Mine, Marble Valley 1897
obituary states he was a sharpshooter Death Place: Date of Death: // Cause of Death: Burial Place: St. John's Church Cemetery near Middlebrook Epitaph: |