Soldiers Records

From Compiled Military Service Records at National Archives

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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:33599).

Personal Information Enlistment Records

Name: James Robert McCutchan

Birth Place: Augusta Co.

Date of Birth: 8/31/1840

Physical Description:

Prewar Life:1860 Census, Farmhand, age 19, 1st District, Augusta Co.

Date of Enlistment: 5/15/1862

Place of Enlistment: Churchville

Age at Enlistment:

Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer

Conscript or Substitute:

Service Information Military Service Record

Rank: Pvt.

Company: C

Transfer Company:

Regiment: 14th Va. Cav.

Promotions: Promoted Sgt.

Transfers and Other Service:Enlisted in Co. D, 5th Va. Inf. 04-17-1861; Discharged 04-18-1862

Muster Sheet: Enlisted as Pvt.; Present 09-00-1862 through 10-00-1862; Captured 11-26-1862; Present 03-00-1864 through 05-00-1864; Absent, sick 07-01-1864 through 10-31-1864, however present 09-12-1864; Present 11-00-1864 through 12-00-1864

Captured:

Missing In Action:

Prison:

AWOL:

Deserted:

Discharge:

Paroled: 5/16/1865

Notes:

Wounded/Killed Information Other Information

Died of Disease:

Killed in Action:

Wounded in Action: - //

Hospital:

Died of Wounds:

Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney

Family Number from 1860 census: 1491 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record)

Dwelling Number from 1860 census: 1518 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record)

Postwar Life: Farmer, Riverheads Dist., Augusta Co. 1870 census; Engineer and County Surveyor, South River Dist., Augusta Co. 1910 census obituary states he was a sharpshooter

Death Place: Annex

Date of Death: 7/3/1915

Cause of Death:

Burial Place: Thornrose Cem., Staunton

Epitaph: