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:31286).

Personal Information Enlistment Records

Name: Adam Wise Kersh

Birth Place: Virginia

Date of Birth: 8/31/1840

Physical Description:

Prewar Life:1860 Census, Cabinetmaker, age 31, Burkes Mill District, Augusta Co.

Date of Enlistment: 7/31/1861

Place of Enlistment: Staunton

Age at Enlistment:

Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer

Conscript or Substitute:

Service Information Military Service Record

Rank: Pvt.

Company: F

Transfer Company:

Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf.

Promotions:

Transfers and Other Service:

Muster Sheet: Present 11-00-1861 to 04-00-1862; reenlisted 05-01-1862; present 08-31-1862 to 12-00-1862; present 03-00-1864, 04-00-1864

Captured:

Missing In Action:

Prison:

AWOL:

Deserted:

Discharge:

Paroled: 5/11/1865

Notes:

Wounded/Killed Information Other Information

Died of Disease:

Killed in Action:

Wounded in Action: Bethesda Church - 5/30/1864

Hospital:

Died of Wounds:

Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney

Family Number from 1860 census: 739 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record)

Dwelling Number from 1860 census: 734 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record)

Postwar Life: Cabinetmaker and fiddle player, Centreville Augusta Co. obituary states he was a sharpshooter

Death Place: Centreville Augusta Co.

Date of Death: 3/22/1905

Cause of Death:

Burial Place: St. Michael's Church Cemetery

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