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Personal Information Enlistment Records

Name: John Alfred Wilkinson

Birth Place: Collierstown, Rockbridge Co.

Date of Birth: 8/31/1840

Physical Description:

Prewar Life:1860 Census, Surveyor, age 17, 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.

Promotions: Appointed 3rd Cpl. 11-01-1861

Transfers and Other Service:On detached service with Enrolling Officer 11th Congressional District 03-00-1863 to 09-00-1863; Enl. 18th Va. Cav. without authority

Muster Sheet: Present 11-00-1861 to 04-00-1862; reenlisted 05-01-1862; absent sick 09-15-1862 to 02-00-1863

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Wounded in Action: - //

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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)

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Postwar Life: Attended Washington College 1866; 1870 Census, Farmhand, age 28, Buffalo Township, Rockbridge Co.; farmer, school teacher, and postmaster Collierstown obituary states he was a sharpshooter

Death Place: Collierstown

Date of Death: 5/16/1916

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Burial Place: Collierstown Presbyterian Church Cemetery

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