Name: Joseph Henry Teaford
Birth Place: Augusta Co.
Date of Birth: 8/31/1840
Physical Description:
Prewar Life:Clerk, age 19, Lexington 1860 census
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Date of Enlistment: 3/12/1862
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Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer
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Rank: Pvt.
Company: I
Transfer Company:
Regiment: 14th Va. Cav.
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Transfers and Other Service:
Muster Sheet: Reenlisted at Salem 02-12-1863; Present through 04-30-1863; Absent, detailed as Brigade Ordnance Clerk 12-31-1863 through 12-31-1864; Wounded 03-01-1865; Sent to Lynchburg hosp.
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Killed in Action:
Wounded in Action: near Lynchburg, accidentally - 3/1/1865
Hospital: Sent to Lynchburg hosp.
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Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney
Family Number from 1860 census: (Click on number to see the 1860 census record)
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Postwar Life:
obituary states he was a sharpshooter
Death Place: Lynchburg hosp
Date of Death: 5/15/1865
Cause of Death:
Burial Place: Bethany Lutheran Ch. Cem., Rockbridge Co.
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