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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:31964).
Personal Information | Enlistment Records |
Name: Jacob Samuel Sheets Birth Place: Augusta Co. Date of Birth: 8/31/1840 Physical Description: Prewar Life:1860 Census, Farmhand, age 18, Burkes Mill District, Augusta Co. |
Date of Enlistment: 7/31/1861 Place of Enlistment: Staunton Age at Enlistment: Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer Conscript or Substitute: |
Service Information | Military Service Record |
Rank: Pvt. Company: F 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; present 08-00-1862, 09-00-1862; present 10-00-1862 to 12-00-1862; absent on leave 02-19-1863 to 02-28-1863; present 04-30-1863 to 12-00-1863; present 03-00-1864, 04-00-1864 Captured: Missing In Action: Prison: AWOL: Deserted: Discharge: Paroled: 6/5/1865 Notes: Issued clothing 05-19-64 |
Wounded/Killed Information | Other Information |
Died of Disease: Killed in Action: Wounded in Action: Sharpsburg, arm ;Cedar Creek, compound fracture left tibia 10-19-1864, lower left leg amputated - 9/17/1862 Hospital: West Building Hospital Baltimore; hosp. Richmond 03-04-1865, 03-05-1865 Died of Wounds: |
Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney Family Number from 1860 census: 1003 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Dwelling Number from 1860 census: 998 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Postwar Life: 1870 Census, Farmhand, age 28, Mt. Sidney Post Office, Augusta Co.; 1910 Census, Farmer, Middle River District, Augusta Co.
obituary states he was a sharpshooter Death Place: Weyer's Cave Date of Death: 2/27/1922 Cause of Death: Burial Place: Old Salem Lutheran Church Cemetery 3 miles west of Mt. Sidney Epitaph: |