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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:27101).
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Name: William Bowen. Gallaher Birth Place: Shepherdstown, Jefferson Co. Date of Birth: 8/31/1840 Physical Description: Prewar Life:Att. Waynesboro Academy, the V.M.I., and Georgetown Univ. 1860 census listed occupation as overseer, Waynesboro. |
Date of Enlistment: 5/2/1861 Place of Enlistment: Waynesboro Age at Enlistment: Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer Conscript or Substitute: |
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Rank: 3rd Lt. Company: E Transfer Company: Regiment: 1st Va. Cav. |
Promotions: Appointed 2nd Lt. 7-4-1861 Transfers and Other Service: Muster Sheet: Present until resigned for ill health 8-11-1861 Captured: Missing In Action: Prison: AWOL: Deserted: Discharge: Paroled: // Notes: |
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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: 1958 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Dwelling Number from 1860 census: 1953 (Click on number to see the 1860 census record) Postwar Life: Manager of tannery, Rose Hill, Waynesboro to the end of the war. 1870 census listed occupation as farmer, South River District, Augusta Co.
obituary states he was a sharpshooter Death Place: Springdale near Waynesboro Date of Death: 2/19/1911 Cause of Death: Burial Place: Riverview Cemetery Epitaph: |