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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:3332).
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Name: Andrew Davidson Long Birth Place: Mt. Sidney Date of Birth: 8/31/1840 Physical Description: Prewar Life:1860 Census, Laborer, age 16, Northern District, Augusta Co. |
Date of Enlistment: 3/14/1862 Place of Enlistment: Rude's Hill Age at Enlistment: Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer Conscript or Substitute: |
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Rank: Pvt. Company: A Transfer Company: Regiment: 5th Va. Inf. |
Promotions: Transfers and Other Service: Muster Sheet: Returned from hosp. 02-00-1863; reached home about 03-29-1865 on furlough and was apparently still there when Lee surrendered Captured: Missing In Action: Prison: AWOL: Deserted: Discharge: Paroled: // Notes: |
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Died of Disease: Killed in Action: Wounded in Action: Spotsylvania, left shoulder - 5/12/1864 Hospital: Sprained ankle, hosp. 06-09-1862 Died of Wounds: |
Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney Family Number from 1860 census: 1181 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Dwelling Number from 1860 census: 1176 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Postwar Life: Moved to Texas 1872. Long's wartime recollections were recorded and published in narrative form by his son Walter in Austin Texas 1930 as Stonewall's Foot Cavalryman. The book was not published for sale and was distributed on a first come, first served basis. Last known member of Stonewall Brigade.
obituary states he was a sharpshooter Death Place: Ladonia Date of Death: 3/27/1930 Cause of Death: Burial Place: Ladonia Epitaph: |