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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:32167).
Personal Information | Enlistment Records |
Name: Absalom Thornton Birth Place: Augusta Co. Date of Birth: 8/31/1840 Physical Description: Prewar Life:1860 Census, Farmhand, age 19, Staunton Post Office, Augusta Co. |
Date of Enlistment: 7/16/1861 Place of Enlistment: Staunton Age at Enlistment: Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer Conscript or Substitute: |
Service Information | Military Service Record |
Rank: Pvt. Company: I Transfer Company: Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf. |
Promotions: Appointed 3rd Cpl. 04-01-1863 Transfers and Other Service: Muster Sheet: Present 11-00-1861 to 04-00-1862; reenlisted 05-01-1862; present 08-31-1862 to 09-00-1862; present 10-00-1862; present 01-00-1863 to 04-00-1863; present 04-30-1863 to 12-00-1863; returned to duty 07-00-1864 Captured: Missing In Action: Prison: AWOL: Deserted: Discharge: Paroled: // Notes: |
Wounded/Killed Information | Other Information |
Died of Disease: Killed in Action: Wounded in Action: Sharpsburg; Spotsylvania Courthouse, left arm pit 05-12-1864 - 9/17/1862 Hospital: Died of Wounds: |
Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney Family Number from 1860 census: 1207 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Dwelling Number from 1860 census: 1209 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Postwar Life: 1870 Census, Farmhand, age 27, Fishersville Post Office, Augusta Co.; gas house operator, city of Staunton; member Stonewall Jackson Camp C. V. Staunton
obituary states he was a sharpshooter Death Place: Staunton Date of Death: 6/17/1910 Cause of Death: Burial Place: Thornrose Cemetery Epitaph: |