Name: George Washington Swink
Birth Place: Augusta Co.
Date of Birth: 8/31/1840
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Date of Enlistment: 7/16/1861
Place of Enlistment: Staunton
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Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer
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Rank: Pvt.
Company: C
Transfer Company:
Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf.
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Muster Sheet: Present 11-00-1861, 12-00-1861; absent sick 01-00-1862, 02-00-1862; present 03-00-1862, 04-00-1862; reenlisted 05-01-1862; present 08-31-1862 to 08-31-1863; absent sick with dysentery 09-14-1863 to 10-31-1863; present 11-00-1863, 12-00-1863; absent wounded through 12-31-1864
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Wounded in Action: 2nd Manassas, hand; Spotsylvania Courthouse, hip 05-12-1864 - 8/28/1862
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Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney
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Postwar Life: 1870 Census, Farmer, age 28, Mt. Sidney Post Office, Augusta Co.; Commissioner of Revenue Augusta Co. 1897
obituary states he was a sharpshooter
Death Place: Moscow
Date of Death: 3/10/1904
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Burial Place: Mossy Creek Presbyterian Church Cemetery
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