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Name: David Franklin Snell
Birth Place: Augusta Co.
Date of Birth: 8/31/1840
Physical Description:
Prewar Life:Farmer Augusta Co.
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Date of Enlistment: 7/31/1861
Place of Enlistment: Staunton
Age at Enlistment:
Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer
Conscript or Substitute:
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Rank: Pvt.
Company: F
Transfer Company:
Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf.
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Promotions:
Transfers and Other Service:
Muster Sheet: Present 11-00-1861 to 02-00-1862; present 03-00-1862, 04-00-1862; reenlisted 05-01-1862; present 05-01-1862 to 11-23-1862; present in arrest 01-00-1863, 02-00-1863; absent wounded through 08-31-1863; present 09-00-1863 to 12-00-1863; present 03-00-1864, 04-00-1864; absent wounded through 10-31-1864; returned to duty from hosp. Richmond 02-01-1865; retired for disability to hand and arm 02-21-1865, age 28, farmer
Captured:
Missing In Action:
Prison:
AWOL:
Deserted:
Discharge:
Paroled: 5/10/1865
Notes:
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Died of Disease:
Killed in Action:
Wounded in Action: Gettysburg, leg; Spotsylvania Courthouse, right wrist and fractured small bone in arm 05-12-1864 - 7/3/1863
Hospital: Hosp. Richmond 01-31-1865
Died of Wounds:
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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)
Dwelling Number from 1860 census: (Click on number to see the 1860 census record)
Postwar Life:
obituary states he was a sharpshooter
Death Place: Near Bridgewater Rockingham Co.
Date of Death: 2/2/1885
Cause of Death:
Burial Place: Beaver Creek Cemetery
Epitaph:
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