Soldiers Records

From Compiled Military Service Records at National Archives

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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:32155).

Personal Information Enlistment Records

Name: John William Terrell

Birth Place: Waynesboro Augusta Co.

Date of Birth: 8/31/1840

Physical Description:

Prewar Life:

Date of Enlistment: 7/15/1861

Place of Enlistment: Waynesboro

Age at Enlistment:

Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer

Conscript or Substitute:

Service Information Military Service Record

Rank: Pvt.

Company: B

Transfer Company:

Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf.

Promotions:

Transfers and Other Service:

Muster Sheet: Absent sick 11-00-1861, 12-00-1861; present 01-00-1862 to 06-00-1862; present 09-25-1862 to 07-00-1863; absent in arrest Orange Courthouse 10-00-1863; present in arrest 11-00-1863, 12-00-1863; furloughed for 60 days 03-19-1865

Captured:

Missing In Action:

Prison:

AWOL:

Deserted:

Discharge:

Paroled: 4/15/1865

Notes: Issued clothing 04-22-64

Wounded/Killed Information Other Information

Died of Disease:

Killed in Action:

Wounded in Action: Bethesda Church, arm and right thigh fractured - 5/30/1864

Hospital: Hosp. Washington D. C.; sick, hosp. Richmond 01-23-1864; chronic diarrhea, hosp. Richmond 03-04-1865

Died of Wounds:

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, Farmhand, age 23, Mt. Sidney Post Office, Augusta Co.; brickmoulder, Basic City Augusta Co. 1913; member Stonewall Jackson Camp C. V. Staunton obituary states he was a sharpshooter

Death Place: Basic City

Date of Death: 1/31/1919

Cause of Death:

Burial Place: Riverview Cemetery Waynesboro, UDC lot

Epitaph: