Soldiers Records

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Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War, Virginia Center for Digital History, University of Virginia
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Personal Information Enlistment Records

Name: James Franklin Willson

Birth Place: Near Brownsburg, Rockbridge Co.

Date of Birth: 8/31/1840

Physical Description:

Prewar Life:Attended Washington Col. 00-00-59 through 00-00-61; Farmer, 6th Dist., Rockbridge Co. 1860 census; Teacher

Date of Enlistment: 5/15/1862

Place of Enlistment: Churchville

Age at Enlistment:

Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer

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Service Information Military Service Record

Rank: Pvt.

Company: C

Transfer Company:

Regiment: 14th Va. Cav.

Promotions:

Transfers and Other Service:Detailed with horses in Rockbridge Co. 01-10-1864 through 02-25-1864

Muster Sheet: Exempt for "hemorrhage" 02-00-1862; Exempt for "hemorrhage" 03-19-1862; Captured 11-26-1862; Discharged; Reenlisted 09-01-1863, Greenbrier Co.; Absent, detailed with horses in Rockbridge Co. 01-10-1864 through 04-29-1864; Present through 08-31-1864; Absent, sick in hosp. through 12-31-1864; Present Appomattox CH, 04-09-1865

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Wounded/Killed Information Other Information

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Wounded in Action: - //

Hospital: Sick in hosp. 02-26-1864 through 12-31-1864

Died of Wounds:

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: Civil Engineer, Mo. and Texas; School Teacher, Farmer and Commissioner of Revenue, Augusta Co.; Member, Stonewall Jackson Camp, CV, Staunton 00-00-07; Real Estate and Insurance Agent, Waynesboro obituary states he was a sharpshooter

Death Place: Waynesboro

Date of Death: 5/21/1926

Cause of Death:

Burial Place: Riverview Cem., Waynesboro

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