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:32219).

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Personal Information Enlistment Records

Name: Joseph E. Wasson

Birth Place: Centre Co. Penn.

Date of Birth: 8/31/1840

Physical Description:

Prewar Life:M. E. Preacher, Augusta Co. 1861

Date of Enlistment: 7/31/1861

Place of Enlistment: Staunton

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Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer

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Service Information Military Service Record

Rank: 1st Sgt.

Company: F

Transfer Company:

Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf.

Promotions: Rank shown as Pvt. 12-31-1861

Transfers and Other Service:

Muster Sheet: Absent on leave 12-15-1861 to 12-31-1861; present 01-00-1862, 02-00-1862; fined $2 by court-martial; present 03-00-1862, 04-00-1862, claimed to be exempt as minister

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Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney

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Postwar Life: obituary states he was a sharpshooter

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