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:32265).

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Personal Information Enlistment Records

Name: William Wilhelm

Birth Place: Virginia

Date of Birth: 8/31/1840

Physical Description:

Prewar Life:1860 Census, Farmhand, age 36, Collierstown Post Office, Rockbridge Co.

Date of Enlistment: 8/1/1861

Place of Enlistment: Staunton

Age at Enlistment:

Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer

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Service Information Military Service Record

Rank: Pvt.

Company: E

Transfer Company:

Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf.

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Transfers and Other Service:

Muster Sheet: Present 11-00-1861 to 02-00-1862; absent sick 03-00-1862, 04-00-1862; absent wounded through 04-00-1863; present 04-30-1863 to 12-00-1863

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Wounded/Killed Information Other Information

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Wounded in Action: Cross Keys, head - 6/8/1862

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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: obituary states he was a sharpshooter

Death Place: Bethesda Church

Date of Death: 5/30/1864

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