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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:1732).
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Name: Thomas Martin Smiley Birth Place: Augusta Co. Date of Birth: 8/31/1840 Physical Description: Prewar Life:1860 Census, Farmhand, age 17, 1st District, Augusta Co. |
Date of Enlistment: 4/16/1861 Place of Enlistment: Augusta Co. Age at Enlistment: Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer Conscript or Substitute: |
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Rank: Pvt. Company: D Transfer Company: Regiment: 5th Va. Inf. |
Promotions: To Sgt. 07-01-1863 Transfers and Other Service: Muster Sheet: Captured: Missing In Action: Prison: AWOL: Deserted: Discharge: Paroled: // Notes: |
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Died of Disease: Killed in Action: Wounded in Action: Chancellorsville, hand and face - 5/3/1863 Hospital: Died of Wounds: |
Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney Family Number from 1860 census: 1345 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Dwelling Number from 1860 census: 1363 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Postwar Life: 1870 Census, Farmer, age 27, Riverheads District, Augusta Co. Membership application for Stonewall Jackson Camp No. 25 C. V. Staunton 08-22-92; collected the information for Co. D's muster roll published in Staunton Vindicator 03-03-93
obituary states he was a sharpshooter Death Place: near Moffett's Creek Date of Death: 11/11/1920 Cause of Death: Burial Place: New Providence Presbyterian Church Cemetery Epitaph: |