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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:31582).
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Name: James Wallace Palmer Birth Place: Augusta Co. Date of Birth: 8/31/1840 Physical Description: Prewar Life:1860 Census, Farmhand, age 33, Burkes Mill District, Augusta Co. |
Date of Enlistment: 8/2/1861 Place of Enlistment: Staunton Age at Enlistment: Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer Conscript or Substitute: |
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Rank: Pvt. Company: G Transfer Company: Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf. |
Promotions: Transfers and Other Service:Detailed as nurse hosp. Jordan Springs 06-18-1863 to 07-23-1863 Muster Sheet: Present 11-00-1861 to 02-00-1862; absent sick 03-00-1862, 04-00-1862; reenlisted 05-01-1862; present 05-01-1862 to 08-31-1862; present 09-00-1862, 10-00-1862; present 11-00-1862 to 06-00-1863; present 07-00-1863 to 12-00-1863; present 04-30-1864 to 12-31-1864 Captured: Missing In Action: Prison: AWOL: Deserted: Discharge: Paroled: // Notes: Surrendered Appomattox 04-09-65 |
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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: 1684 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Dwelling Number from 1860 census: 1679 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Postwar Life: Farmer Fishersville
obituary states he was a sharpshooter Death Place: Graham Date of Death: 6/25/1919 Cause of Death: Burial Place: Epitaph: |