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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:3245).
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Name: George Henry Killian Birth Place: Augusta Co. Date of Birth: 8/31/1840 Physical Description: Prewar Life:1860 Census, Student, age 19, 1st District, Augusta Co. |
Date of Enlistment: 4/19/1861 Place of Enlistment: Fishersville Age at Enlistment: Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer Conscript or Substitute: |
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Rank: Pvt. Company: H Transfer Company: Regiment: 5th Va. Inf. |
Promotions: To 2nd Lt. 04-12-1862; shown on rolls as 1st Lt. 12-00-1863; to Capt. Transfers and Other Service: Muster Sheet: Sick leave 09-00-1861 to 01-00-1862; present in arrest 12-00-1862; sentenced 01-26-1863 to forfeit a month's pay; relieved from arrest and ordered to "resume his sword" Captured: Missing In Action: Prison: AWOL: Deserted: Discharge: Paroled: // Notes: Was one of the Immortal 600 at Morris Island. In battle at Winchester, Va., when in close quarters, an enemy turned to shoot him, when a brother of George seeing the imment peril, protected him with a shot. |
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Died of Disease: Killed in Action: Wounded in Action: Kernstown; Chancellorsville, head 05-03-1863 - 3/23/1862 Hospital: Died of Wounds: |
Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney Family Number from 1860 census: 514 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Dwelling Number from 1860 census: 469 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Postwar Life: Farmed in Virginia; moved to Florida and then to Decatur Ala.
obituary states he was a sharpshooter Death Place: Decatur Ala. Date of Death: 10/9/1888 Cause of Death: Burial Place: Epitaph: |