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:33769).

Personal Information Enlistment Records

Name: Michael J. Emmett

Birth Place: Ireland

Date of Birth: 8/31/1840

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Prewar Life:

Date of Enlistment: 6/16/1861

Place of Enlistment: Augusta Co.

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Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer

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Service Information Military Service Record

Rank: Pvt.

Company: M

Transfer Company:

Regiment: 5th Va. Inf. & 1st Rockbridge Arty.

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Transfers and Other Service:Reenlisted 1st Rockbridge Arty., Winchester 06-15-1861

Muster Sheet: Disbanded 5th Va. Inf. Co. M 06-00-1861

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Notes: At reenlistment age 26 on rolls

Wounded/Killed Information Other Information

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Wounded in Action: Kernstown, face; Gettysburg 07-02-1863 - 3/23/1862

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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

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