Name: Benjamin Franklin Shiplet
Birth Place: Virginia
Date of Birth: 8/31/1840
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Date of Enlistment: 7/31/1861
Place of Enlistment: Staunton
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Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer
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Rank: Pvt.
Company: F
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Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf.
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Transfers and Other Service:Reenlisted Co. D 3rd Bn. Valley Reserves 04-23-1864
Muster Sheet: Absent sick 11-18-1861 to 12-31-1861; present 01-00-1862 to 03-00-1862; reenlisted 05-01-1862; present in arrest 01-00-1863, 02-00-1863
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Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney
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Postwar Life: 1870 Census, Farmhand, age 49, Mt. Sidney Post Office, Augusta Co.
obituary states he was a sharpshooter
Death Place: Augusta Co.
Date of Death: 2/6/1896
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Burial Place: Parnassus Methodist Church Cemetery
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