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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:32327).
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Name: James H. Skinner Birth Place: Norfolk Date of Birth: 8/31/1840 Physical Description: Prewar Life:University of Virginia 1842-1846; lawyer Staunton; member Virginia legislature |
Date of Enlistment: 7/9/1861 Place of Enlistment: Staunton Age at Enlistment: Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer Conscript or Substitute: |
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Rank: Capt. Company: A Transfer Company: Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf. |
Promotions: Elected Lt. Col. 05-01-1862; to Col. 10-24-1863 Transfers and Other Service:Capt. Co. B and Col. 160th Va. Militia Muster Sheet: Present 11-00-1861 to 04-00-1862; commanded left wing of regt. McDowell; commanded regt. Cross Keys, Port Republic, Winchester, Gaines Mill, Malvern Hill, Cedar Run, Bristoe Station, and 2nd Manassas until wounded; absent wounded through 10-00-1862; commanded regt. Fredericksburg 12-13-1862; absent 02-00-1863; present 04-00-1863, 05-00-1863; commanded regt. Fredericksburg 05-05-1863; commanded regt. Gettysburg until wounded 07-03-1863; commanded regt. Mine Run; present 12-00-1863 to 01-00-1864; commanded regt. Wilderness and Spotsylvania Courthouse until wounded 05-12-1864; commanded post Staunton 12-00-1864 to 04-00-1865; retired for disability 03-04-1865 Captured: Missing In Action: Prison: AWOL: Deserted: Discharge: Paroled: // Notes: Court of Inquiry found in 1863 that at Bristoe Station 08-27-62 he received an order which under fire of the enemy to withdraw his Regt. to the rear which he did by marching them by the left flank through a thicket of pines in as good order as the nature of the ground would admit of--he leading the way and indicating to the command the direction in which it should march. That at the battle of Fredericksburg. . . he failed in no particular to perform fully his duties as Commander of the Regt. remaining with his Command and giving all the necessary orders and commands. That at the battles of Gaines Mills, Cedar Mountain, and Fredericksburg being in command of the 52 Va. Regt. did perform his duties in every respect as becoming an officer in his command giving all necessary orders and commands and evincing coolness and gallantry. Signed Bgen. Harry T. Hays President of the Court and approved by Gen. R. E. Lee. He is a gentleman, in the highest sense of the term; courteous, intellegent and dignified. His moral qualities are exceptional. His habits are excellent. He is a lawyer by education . . . and practiced his profession with success for 14 years--and gifted with fine talents, and studious in his habits, he has acquired reputation and the confidence of the community (Staunton). |
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Died of Disease: Killed in Action: Wounded in Action: 2nd Manassas, head, by shell fragment; Gettysburg, blinded for several months by dirt and gravel in eyes 07-03-1863; Spotsylvania Courthouse, in temple by minie ball entering just below the left temple, passing through the left eye, and making its exit on - 8/28/1862 Hospital: Died of Wounds: |
Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney Family Number from 1860 census: 279 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Dwelling Number from 1860 census: 253 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Postwar Life: Lawyer, Staunton; Col. Of Va. Militia 1871; President of Augusta Memorial Association to improve and maintain the Confederate Section of Thornrose Cemetery 1880; member Stonewall Jackson Camp C. V. Staunton; commander of camp 1884
obituary states he was a sharpshooter Death Place: "Sailor's Rest" Staunton Date of Death: 5/19/1898 Cause of Death: Burial Place: Cedar Grove Cemetery Norfolk Epitaph: |