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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 (valleyshadow.lib.virginia.edu/dossier_record?q=db:dossiers_augusta AND id_num:2516).
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Name: Samuel Franklin Carson Birth Place: Virginia Date of Birth: 8/31/1840 Physical Description: Prewar Life:1860 Census, Farmer, age 29, 1st District, Augusta Co. Pvt., Southern Guard 1860 |
Date of Enlistment: 4/17/1861 Place of Enlistment: Augusta Co. Age at Enlistment: Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer Conscript or Substitute: |
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Rank: Sgt. Company: D Transfer Company: Regiment: 5th Va. Inf. |
Promotions: To 1st Lt. 00-00-1861 Transfers and Other Service: Muster Sheet: Mustered in at Harpers Ferry 05-25-1861; returned 08-00-1863 from being wounded at Chancellorsville Captured: Missing In Action: Prison: AWOL: Deserted: Discharge: Paroled: // Notes: Became one of the Immortal 600 at Morris Island |
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Died of Disease: Killed in Action: Wounded in Action: Chancellorsville, wrist - 5/3/1863 Hospital: Died of Wounds: |
Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney Family Number from 1860 census: 996 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Dwelling Number from 1860 census: 990 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Postwar Life: 1870 Census, Farmer, age 38, Riverheads District, Augusta Co. Residing in Steele's Tavern and Spottswood
obituary states he was a sharpshooter Death Place: near Spottswood Date of Death: 2/20/1893 Cause of Death: Burial Place: Old Providence Presbyterian Church Cemetery Augusta Co. Epitaph: |