Soldiers Records

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Please cite results as coming from: County, , Soldiers Records
Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War, Virginia Center for Digital History, University of Virginia
(valley.lib.virginia.edu/dossier_record?q=db:dossiers_augusta AND id_num:32125).

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Personal Information Enlistment Records

Name: Martin Van Buren Swink

Birth Place: Augusta Co.

Date of Birth: 8/31/1840

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Date of Enlistment: 2/28/1862

Place of Enlistment: Valley Mills

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Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer

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Service Information Military Service Record

Rank: Pvt.

Company: C

Transfer Company:

Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf.

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Transfers and Other Service:Pvt. Co. I 160th Va. Militia 03-00-1862 exempt for fits, age 26

Muster Sheet: Absent sick 06-00-1862 until discharge

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Wounded/Killed Information Other Information

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Wounded in Action: - //

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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, Farmhand, age 32, Mt. Sidney Post Office, Augusta Co. obituary states he was a sharpshooter

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Date of Death: //1910

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