Soldiers Records

From Compiled Military Service Records at National Archives

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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:32390).

Personal Information Enlistment Records

Name: Phineas M. Orndorff

Birth Place: Pendleton Co.

Date of Birth: 8/31/1840

Physical Description:

Prewar Life:Laborer, age 25, 1st Dist. Augusta Co. 1860 census

Date of Enlistment: 6/1/1861

Place of Enlistment: Staunton

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Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer

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Service Information Military Service Record

Rank: Pvt.

Company: D

Transfer Company:

Regiment: 25th Va. Inf.

Promotions:

Transfers and Other Service:Reenl. Co. A, 20th Va. Cav., 01-26-1863, Augusta Co., age 29

Muster Sheet: Cut foot with axe ad ab., 07-08-1861 to 10-31-1861; ab. 10-31-1863 to 08-31-1864; never reported for duty (Co. A, 20th Va. Cav.); NFR

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Paroled: //

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Wounded/Killed Information Other Information

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Wounded in Action: - //

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Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney

Family Number from 1860 census: 1699 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record)

Dwelling Number from 1860 census: 1750 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record)

Postwar Life: obituary states he was a sharpshooter

Death Place: Augusta Co.

Date of Death: //1872

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