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Name: Robert Preston George Shafer
Birth Place: Rockbridge Co.
Date of Birth: 8/31/1840
Physical Description:
Prewar Life:1860 Census, Farmhand, age 18, Glenwood District, Rockbridge Co.
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Date of Enlistment: 8/1/1861
Place of Enlistment: Staunton
Age at Enlistment:
Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer
Conscript or Substitute:
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Rank: Pvt.
Company: E
Transfer Company:
Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf.
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Promotions: To 1st Cpl. 04-15-1863
Transfers and Other Service:
Muster Sheet: Present 11-00-1861 to 04-00-1862; reenlisted 05-01-1862; present 05-01-1862 to 10-31-1862; present 01-00-1863 to 04-00-1863; absent wounded through 12-00-1863; absent wounded through 10-31-1864; present 11-00-1864, 12-00-1864
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Notes: Surrendered Appomattox 04-09-65
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Died of Disease:
Killed in Action:
Wounded in Action: Cedar Run; Fredericksburg, 2nd and 3rd fingers right hand amputated 12-13-1862; Gettysburg, left shoulder 07-03-1863; Wilderness 05-06-1864 - 8/9/1862
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Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney
Family Number from 1860 census: (Click on number to see the 1860 census record)
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Postwar Life: Resident Rapps Mills Rockbridge Co. 1900-1908; 1910 Census, Laborer, age 68, Buena Vista
obituary states he was a sharpshooter
Death Place: Buena Vista
Date of Death: 1/9/1922
Cause of Death:
Burial Place: Green Hill Cemetery
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