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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:31990).
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Name: Daniel Keyser Shreckhise Birth Place: Augusta Co. Date of Birth: 8/31/1840 Physical Description: Prewar Life:1860 Census, Farmhand, age 19, 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: 3rd Sgt. Company: G Transfer Company: Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf. |
Promotions: Transfers and Other Service:Enl. 08-02-1861 Co.; Enl. Co. L 5th Va. inf. 00-00-1861 (disbanded); conscripted and assigned to Co. G 62nd Va. inf. 02-12-1864 Muster Sheet: Present 11-00-1861 to 04-00-1862; reenlisted 05-01-1862; absent wounded through 08-31-1862; absent wounded through 10-31-1864; present 12-31-1864 Captured: Missing In Action: Prison: AWOL: Deserted: Discharge: Paroled: // Notes: |
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Died of Disease: Killed in Action: Wounded in Action: Cross Keys, breast Winchester, thigh 07-25-1864 - 6/8/1862 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: 1175 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Postwar Life: Farmer and Stockraiser, Mt. Sidney 1885
obituary states he was a sharpshooter Death Place: Mt. Sidney Date of Death: 8/1/1908 Cause of Death: Burial Place: Melancthon Chapel Cemetery Epitaph: |