Name: William Henry Smith
Birth Place: Augusta Co.
Date of Birth: 8/31/1840
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Date of Enlistment: 7/23/1861
Place of Enlistment: Staunton
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Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer
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Rank: Pvt.
Company: H
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Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf.
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Transfers and Other Service:Joined U. S. service 01-25-1864
Muster Sheet: Present 01-00-1861 to 04-00-1862; reenlisted 05-01-1862; absent wounded through 08-31-1862; present 01-00-1863 to 06-00-1863
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Wounded in Action: Gaines Mill; Gettysburg 07-03-1863 - 6/27/1862
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Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney
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Postwar Life: Residence near Greenville; 1870 Census, Farmhand, age 29, Fishersville Post Office, Augusta Co.; 1910 Census, Farmer, age 64, Cedar Creek District, Bath Co.
obituary states he was a sharpshooter
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