Name: James Crawford Shomo
Birth Place: New Market Shenandoah Co.
Date of Birth: 8/31/1840
Physical Description:
Prewar Life:School Teacher
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Date of Enlistment: 7/15/1861
Place of Enlistment: Waynesboro
Age at Enlistment:
Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer
Conscript or Substitute:
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Rank: Pvt.
Company: B
Transfer Company:
Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf.
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Promotions:
Transfers and Other Service:
Muster Sheet: Present 11-00-1861 to 04-00-1862; absent wounded through 02-00-1863; present 03-00-1863, 04-00-1863; fined one month pay in addition to time absent by regimental court-martial; present in arrest in regimental guard house 11-00-1863, 12-00-1863; absent undergoing sentence of court-martial 04-30-1864 to 10-31-1864
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Discharge:
Paroled: 5/15/1865
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Wounded in Action: Gaines Mill - 6/27/1862
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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: 1870 Census, Farmer, age 32, Fishersville Post Office, Augusta Co.
obituary states he was a sharpshooter
Death Place: Fishersville
Date of Death: 6/7/1915
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Burial Place: Fishersville Cemetery
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