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:1300).

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Personal Information Enlistment Records

Name: John Berry McGuffin

Birth Place: Virginia

Date of Birth: 8/31/1840

Physical Description:

Prewar Life:

Date of Enlistment: 4/17/1861

Place of Enlistment: Staunton

Age at Enlistment:

Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer

Conscript or Substitute:

Service Information Military Service Record

Rank: Pvt.

Company: L

Transfer Company:

Regiment: 5th Va. Inf.

Promotions: To 1st Sgt. 05-01-1862

Transfers and Other Service:Transf. to Co. F 04-26-1862; to 33rd Regt. Va. Inf. c. 05-00-1863 as QM Sgt.; to Co. D 33rd Regt. as Orderly Sgt. 09-01-1863

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Prison:

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Discharge:

Paroled: //

Notes: Wartime letters are in Alderman Library University of Virginia

Wounded/Killed Information Other Information

Died of Disease:

Killed in Action:

Wounded in Action: Winchester - 9/19/1864

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:

Date of Death: //

Cause of Death:

Burial Place: Mt. Hebron Cemetery Winchester in Heist lot

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