Soldiers Records

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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:32872).

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Personal Information Enlistment Records

Name: John H. Ralston

Birth Place: Augusta Co.

Date of Birth: 8/31/1840

Physical Description:

Prewar Life:

Date of Enlistment: 4/23/1864

Place of Enlistment: Staunton

Age at Enlistment:

Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer

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Service Information Military Service Record

Rank: Pvt.

Company:

Transfer Company:

Regiment: Marquis' Boys Bty., Staunton

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Transfers and Other Service:

Muster Sheet: Pres., Piedmont, 06-05-1864; pres., 08-31-1864; issued clothing, 09-14-1864 and 12-26-1864

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Discharge:

Paroled: //

Notes: Last man ordered to leave the field at Piedmont; Scout for Gen. Imboden and captured in postwar account

Wounded/Killed Information Other Information

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Killed in Action:

Wounded in Action: - //

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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: Carpenter, age 24, 3rd Dist. Augusta Co. 1870 census; Farmer, Churchville; Blacksmith obituary states he was a sharpshooter

Death Place: "Elk Meadows," near Stover's Shop

Date of Death: 9/16/1934

Cause of Death:

Burial Place: Elk Run Church of the Brethren Cem.

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