Soldiers Records

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Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War, Virginia Center for Digital History, University of Virginia
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Personal Information Enlistment Records

Name: James Buchanan McCutchan

Birth Place: Chestnut Hill near Middlebrook Augusta Co.

Date of Birth: 8/31/1840

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Date of Enlistment: 4/17/1861

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Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer

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Service Information Military Service Record

Rank: Pvt.

Company: D

Transfer Company:

Regiment: 5th Va. Inf.

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Muster Sheet: Sick at Manassas Juncture 10-17-1861; returned 08-00-1863 from being wounded at Chancellorsville

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Wounded/Killed Information Other Information

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Wounded in Action: Chancellorsville, head - 5/3/1863

Hospital: Hosp. 02-00-1862 to 10-00-1862

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: 1870 Census, Farmhand, age 30, Riverheads District, Augusta Co. Farmer in Middlebrook; membership application for Stonewall Jackson Camp No. 25 C. V. Staunton 05-10-04. obituary states he was a sharpshooter

Death Place: Chestnut Hill

Date of Death: 6/13/1920

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Burial Place: Bethel Presbyterian Church Cemetery

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