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Name: William Sillings Swink
Birth Place: Virginia
Date of Birth: 8/31/1840
Physical Description:
Prewar Life:
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Date of Enlistment: 7/23/1861
Place of Enlistment: Staunton
Age at Enlistment:
Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer
Conscript or Substitute:
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Rank: Pvt.
Company: H
Transfer Company:
Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf.
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Promotions:
Transfers and Other Service:Pvt. Co. E 93rd Va. Militia; on detail Augusta Co. 11-00-1861, 12-00-1861
Muster Sheet: Absent sick 04-00-1862; returned to duty 04-30-1862; reenlisted 05-01-1862; absent wounded through 12-31-1864
Captured:
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Prison:
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Discharge:
Paroled: 5/1/1865
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Died of Disease:
Killed in Action:
Wounded in Action: Port Republic, left foot and right thigh - 6/9/1862
Hospital:
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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: 1870 Census, Farmer, age 43, Mt. Sidney Post Office, Augusta Co.; resident of Moscow Augusta Co.
obituary states he was a sharpshooter
Death Place: Long Glade
Date of Death: 3/22/1905
Cause of Death:
Burial Place: Pleasant View Lutheran Church Cemetery
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