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:3343).

Personal Information Enlistment Records

Name: Samuel L. Lotts

Birth Place: Near Newport Augusta Co.

Date of Birth: 8/31/1840

Physical Description:

Prewar Life:1860 Census, Age 19, 1st District, Augusta Co.

Date of Enlistment: 8/3/1861

Place of Enlistment: Staunton

Age at Enlistment:

Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer

Conscript or Substitute:

Service Information Military Service Record

Rank: Pvt.

Company: D

Transfer Company:

Regiment: 5th Va. Inf.

Promotions:

Transfers and Other Service:Detailed to Staunton 03-26-1863 to 10-00-1863

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Discharge:

Paroled: 5/11/1865

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Wounded/Killed Information Other Information

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Killed in Action:

Wounded in Action: Port Republic, lost finger; Sharpsburg 09-17-1862; Fredericksburg, lost finger 12-13-1862 - 6/9/1862

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Died of Wounds:

Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney

Family Number from 1860 census: 1286 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record)

Dwelling Number from 1860 census: 1296 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record)

Postwar Life: 1870 Census, Age 28, Walker's Creek District, Rockbridge Co. Living at Moffett's Creek 1893; farmer obituary states he was a sharpshooter

Death Place: near Brownsburg

Date of Death: 1/19/1912

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