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:30997).

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Personal Information Enlistment Records

Name: Edward Valentine Garber

Birth Place: Augusta Co.

Date of Birth: 8/31/1840

Physical Description:

Prewar Life:Mechanic; resident of Missouri; returned when Virginia seceded

Date of Enlistment: 7/9/1861

Place of Enlistment: Staunton

Age at Enlistment:

Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer

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Service Information Military Service Record

Rank: 1st Lt.

Company: A

Transfer Company:

Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf.

Promotions: Acting Adj. of Regt. since 12-26-1861; relieved as acting Adj. 01-20-1862; elected Capt. 05-01-1862

Transfers and Other Service:

Muster Sheet: Present 11-00-1861 to 02-00-1862; present Harrisonburg 06-06-1862; commanding Co. 03-00-1862, 04-00-1862

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Paroled: //

Notes: While leading his company in a charge against the enemy. . . In all relations of life he uniformly bore himself with rare and undeviating faultlessness. He aproved himself to his comrads brave, generous, self-sacrificing. He encountered all the vicissitudes of the trying service in which he was engaged with unwavering fortitude. He discharged all the duties of this office with signal ability and fidelity-- he met all the difficulties with unshaken equanimity.

Wounded/Killed Information Other Information

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Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney

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

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Postwar Life: obituary states he was a sharpshooter

Death Place: 2nd Manassas age 25

Date of Death: 8/29/1862

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Burial Place: Thornrose Cemetery

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