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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:32176).
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Name: Erasmus Stribling Trout Birth Place: Staunton Date of Birth: 8/31/1840 Physical Description: Prewar Life:Virginia Military Institute 1865 |
Date of Enlistment: // Place of Enlistment: Age at Enlistment: Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer Conscript or Substitute: |
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Rank: Drillmaster Company: Transfer Company: Regiment: 52nd Va. Inf. |
Promotions: Appointed Sgt. Major 08-09-1862 for conspicuous gallantry at Cedar Mt. by Col. Skinner; to 2nd Lt. Co. H 08-00-1862; to 1st Lt. 10-00-1862 for "gallantry and general fitness"; to Capt. 05-30-1864 Transfers and Other Service:Drillmaster of regt. until returned to Virginia Military Institute 01-00-1862; reenl. as Pvt. Co. H 08-00-1862 Muster Sheet: Drillmaster of regt. until returned to Virginia Military Institute 01-00-1862; present as Cadet at McDowell 05-08-1862; present 2nd Manassas, Sharpsburg; present 03-00-1863 to 07-00-1863; absent wounded through 10-06-1863; present 10-07-1863 to 12-31-1863; present 06-00-1864 to 12-00-1864; absent on leave 01-18-1865 to 01-28-1865; submitted resignation 02-15-1865 Captured: Missing In Action: Prison: AWOL: Deserted: Discharge: Paroled: // Notes: Surrendered Appomattox 04-09-65 |
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Died of Disease: Killed in Action: Wounded in Action: Gettysburg - 7/3/1863 Hospital: Died of Wounds: |
Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney Family Number from 1860 census: 157 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Dwelling Number from 1860 census: 145 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Postwar Life: Druggist, Staunton
obituary states he was a sharpshooter Death Place: Staunton Date of Death: 10/20/1866 Cause of Death: Burial Place: Thornrose Cemetery Epitaph: |