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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:33025).
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Name: John Ballard Smith Birth Place: Va. Date of Birth: 8/31/1840 Physical Description: Prewar Life:Farmer, age 43, Northern Dist. Augusta Co. 1860 census |
Date of Enlistment: 5/27/1861 Place of Enlistment: Staunton Age at Enlistment: Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer Conscript or Substitute: |
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Rank: 2nd Lt. Company: D Transfer Company: Regiment: 25th Va. Inf. |
Promotions: Transfers and Other Service:Conscripted and assigned to Co. C, 31st Va. Inf. Muster Sheet: Pres., 07-00-1861 to 08-00-1861; NFR Captured: Missing In Action: Prison: AWOL: Deserted: Discharge: Paroled: // Notes: |
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Died of Disease: Killed in Action: Wounded in Action: - // Hospital: In Richmond hospital, 03-02-1865 Died of Wounds: |
Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney Family Number from 1860 census: 1960 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Dwelling Number from 1860 census: 1955 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Postwar Life: Farmer, age 52, 2nd Dist. Augusta Co. 1870 census; Merchant, Waynesboro; Age 65 at death
obituary states he was a sharpshooter Death Place: Waynesboro Date of Death: 3/17/1883 Cause of Death: Burial Place: Riverview Cem. Epitaph: |