Name: Martin van Buren Sprouse
Birth Place: Albemarle Co.
Date of Birth: 8/31/1840
Physical Description:
Prewar Life:1860 Census, Farmhand, age 21, 5th District, Rockbridge Co.
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Date of Enlistment: 7/9/1861
Place of Enlistment: Staunton
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Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer
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Rank: Pvt.
Company: A
Transfer Company:
Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf.
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Muster Sheet: Present 11-00-1861 to 04-00-1862; reenlisted 05-01-1862; absent wounded through 02-00-1863; present 03-00-1863 to 11-00-1863; present 04-30-1864 to 12-00-1864
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Wounded in Action: 2nd Manassas; Mine Run 11-27-1863 - 8/29/1862
Hospital: Hosp. Richmond 12-13-1863
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Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney
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Postwar Life:
obituary states he was a sharpshooter
Death Place: Batesville Albemarle Co.
Date of Death: //1896
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