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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:1299).
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Name: Charles William McGuffin Birth Place: Virginia Date of Birth: 8/31/1840 Physical Description: Prewar Life:1860 Census, Clerk, age 22, Middlebrook; Pvt., Southern Guard, 1860 |
Date of Enlistment: 4/17/1861 Place of Enlistment: Augusta Co. Age at Enlistment: Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer Conscript or Substitute: |
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Rank: Pvt. Company: D Transfer Company: Regiment: 5th Va. Inf. |
Promotions: Transfers and Other Service:Detailed to QM Department Winchester for 16 months; detailed to QM Department Petersburg 12-00-1864; forage Master 02-00-1865 Muster Sheet: Returned from detail 06-00-1863; returned 02-00-1864 from being wounded at Gettysburg Captured: Missing In Action: Prison: AWOL: Deserted: Discharge: Paroled: 4/2/1865 Notes: |
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Died of Disease: Killed in Action: Wounded in Action: Gettysburg, severely in back - 7/3/1863 Hospital: Died of Wounds: |
Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney Family Number from 1860 census: 1180 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Dwelling Number from 1860 census: 1182 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Postwar Life: 1870 Census, Farmer, age 32, Riverheads District, Augusta Co.
obituary states he was a sharpshooter Death Place: Date of Death: 11/1/1881 Cause of Death: Burial Place: Shermariah Presbyterian Church Cemetery Epitaph: |