Name: Christopher Columbus Greiner
Birth Place: Near Staunton
Date of Birth: 8/31/1840
Physical Description:
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Date of Enlistment: 5/14/1861
Place of Enlistment: Brownsburg
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Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer
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Rank: Pvt.
Company: H
Transfer Company:
Regiment: 14th Va. Cav.
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Transfers and Other Service:On detached service 03-00-1863 through 04-00-1863
Muster Sheet: Present 07-00-1861 through 08-00-1861; Reenlisted 05-13-1862, age 22, res. of Rockbridge Co.; Absent, sick 09-00-1862 through 10-00-1862; Present 01-00-1863 through 02-00-1863; Absent, on detached service 03-00-1863 through 04-00-1863; Absent, sick 09-00-1864 through 12-00-1864
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Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney
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Postwar Life: Attended reunions 00-00-94 and 00-00-20; Carpenter
obituary states he was a sharpshooter
Death Place:
Date of Death: 4/1/1923
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Burial Place: Maplewood Cem., Orange, Va.
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