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:32205).

Personal Information Enlistment Records

Name: Luther R. Waid

Birth Place: Augusta Co.

Date of Birth: 8/31/1840

Physical Description:

Prewar Life:Farmer Augusta Co. 1861

Date of Enlistment: 7/16/1861

Place of Enlistment: Staunton

Age at Enlistment:

Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer

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Service Information Military Service Record

Rank: Pvt.

Company: I

Transfer Company:

Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf.

Promotions:

Transfers and Other Service:Joined U. S. service 01-25-1864

Muster Sheet: Present 11-00-1861 to 02-00-1862, fined $11 by court-martial; present 03-00-1862, 04-00-1862; reenlisted 05-01-1862; present 05-01-1862 to 06-17-1862

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Paroled: //

Notes: Died of wounds received in battle in Register of Deaths for Augusta Co. at death

Wounded/Killed Information Other Information

Died of Disease:

Killed in Action:

Wounded in Action: - //

Hospital: Rheumatism, hosp. Staunton 02-02-1863

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: obituary states he was a sharpshooter

Death Place: County Poor House Augusta Co. age 26

Date of Death: 5/5/1867

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