Allen Thornton Garey enlisted in Company A of the 3rd Virginia Cavalry, the "Boydton Cavalry" or "Mecklenburg Dragoons," on May 14, 1861 along with many of his schoolmates. Garey was taken prisoner at Williamsburg, VA on May 4, 1862 and sent to Fort Delaware, where he was released through exchange on August 5, 1862. He was the brother of William W. Garey.
In 1880 Garey was a miner living in Pima Arizona. By 1900, he had left to mine gold in California. He returned to Virginia sometime later and was admitted to the Robert E. Lee Confederate Soldier's Camp in Richmond on September 12, 1910, with the cause of admission listed as "old age and disability." He was discharged from the home on April 20, 1919, but readmitted on the day of his death, January 5, 1920. Garey is buried in Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery
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