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:33289).

Personal Information Enlistment Records

Name: James M. Armstrong

Birth Place: Augusta Co.

Date of Birth: 8/31/1840

Physical Description:

Prewar Life:Student, age 12, 1850 census; M.D., Green Valley Bath Co. 1860 census

Date of Enlistment: 5/8/1862

Place of Enlistment: Rockbridge Alum Springs

Age at Enlistment:

Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer

Conscript or Substitute:

Service Information Military Service Record

Rank: Hospital Steward

Company: G

Transfer Company:

Regiment: 11th Va. Cav.

Promotions: To Asst. Surgeon, on postwar record

Transfers and Other Service:

Muster Sheet: Pres., 01-00-1863 to 04-00-1863; pres., 01-00-1864 to 03-00-1864; pres., 11-00-1864 to 12-00-1864

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Discharge:

Paroled: //

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Wounded/Killed Information Other Information

Died of Disease:

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: Resident of Texas, 1900; Knox Co., Missouri, 1907; Armore, OK obituary states he was a sharpshooter

Death Place:

Date of Death: 5/14/1924

Cause of Death:

Burial Place: Rose Hill Cem., OK

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