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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:1925).
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Name: Thomas Memory Turner Birth Place: Middletown Frederick Co. Date of Birth: 8/31/1840 Physical Description: Prewar Life:1860 Census, Student, age 12, Staunton |
Date of Enlistment: 4/1/1862 Place of Enlistment: Staunton Age at Enlistment: Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer Conscript or Substitute: |
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Rank: Musician Company: Transfer Company: Regiment: 5th Va. Inf. |
Promotions: Transfers and Other Service:Enl. in 5th Va. Inf. Band; Enl. 14th Va. Cav. Band 08-01-1863 Brandy Station Muster Sheet: Present 02-29-1864 to 08-31-1864 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: 181 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Dwelling Number from 1860 census: 167 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Postwar Life: 1870 Census, Music Teacher, age 22, Staunton. Assistant Leader Stonewall Brigade Band 1869; conductor of Blackford Cornet Band of Western State Hospital Staunton; removed to Norfolk by 1910
obituary states he was a sharpshooter Death Place: Norfolk Date of Death: 9/2/1917 Cause of Death: Burial Place: Forest Lawn Cemetery Norfolk Epitaph: |