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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:34180).
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Name: William Henry Harrison Waddell Birth Place: Staunton Date of Birth: 8/31/1840 Physical Description: Prewar Life:1860 Census, age 25, Staunton |
Date of Enlistment: 3/28/1864 Place of Enlistment: Age at Enlistment: Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer Conscript or Substitute: |
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Rank: Pvt. Company: A Transfer Company: Regiment: 62nd Va. Inf. |
Promotions: Transfers and Other Service: Muster Sheet: Conscripted and Assigned 03-28-1864 Captured: Missing In Action: Prison: AWOL: Deserted: Discharge: Paroled: 4/30/1865 Notes: |
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Died of Disease: Killed in Action: Wounded in Action: - // Hospital: Died of Wounds: |
Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney Family Number from 1860 census: 367 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Dwelling Number from 1860 census: 328 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Postwar Life: 1870 Census-Teacher, Staunton; Business Manager, Staunton Vindicator and Charlottesville Chronicle; Inventor of electric railroad signals and other inventions; Merchant, Lexington
obituary states he was a sharpshooter Death Place: Lexington Date of Death: 4/21/1897 Cause of Death: Burial Place: Stonewall Jackson Cemetery Epitaph: |