Soldiers Records

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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:33953).

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Personal Information Enlistment Records

Name: Francis W. McFarland

Birth Place: Augusta Co.

Date of Birth: 8/31/1840

Physical Description:

Prewar Life:

Date of Enlistment: 4/20/1861

Place of Enlistment:

Age at Enlistment:

Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer

Conscript or Substitute:

Service Information Military Service Record

Rank: Sgt.

Company: F

Transfer Company:

Regiment: 6th Va. Cav.

Promotions: Promoted to Sgt. 08-19-1861

Transfers and Other Service:

Muster Sheet: Enlisted as Pvt. 04-20-1861; Absent, sick 12-04-1861 until hired substitute and discharged

Captured:

Missing In Action:

Prison:

AWOL:

Deserted:

Discharge:

Paroled: //

Notes: However, while listed as hiring substitute and being discharged, death listed as in Augusta Co., in 32nd year 07-21-1866 "as a consequence of imprisonment at Ft. McHenry."

Wounded/Killed Information Other Information

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: (Click on number to see the 1860 census record)

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

Postwar Life: obituary states he was a sharpshooter

Death Place: Augusta Co.

Date of Death: 7/21/1866

Cause of Death:

Burial Place: Bethel Presbyterian Church Cemetery

Epitaph:

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