Soldiers Records

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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:32318).

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Personal Information	Enlistment Records
Name: Jacob H. Zimmerman Birth Place: Augusta Co. Date of Birth: 8/31/1840 Physical Description: Prewar Life:	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: 2nd Cpl. Company: I Transfer Company: Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf.	Promotions: Transfers and Other Service: Muster Sheet: Present 11-00-1861 to 04-00-1862; reenlisted 05-01-1862; absent wounded until discharged 03-10-1863 Captured: Missing In Action: Prison: AWOL: Deserted: Discharge: Paroled: 5/17/1865 Notes: Pension application indicates he served in Cav. and WIA, saber wound right leg
Wounded/Killed Information	Other Information
Died of Disease: Killed in Action: Wounded in Action: McDowell, right side and bone fractured in right hand - 5/8/1862 Hospital: 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: Living near Middlebrook 1891 obituary states he was a sharpshooter Death Place: Arbor Hill Date of Death: 8/6/1894 Cause of Death: Burial Place: Mt. Tabor Lutheran Church Cemetery Epitaph:

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