Walter Mandeville Irby enlisted as a private in the "Nottoway Cavalry," Co. E of the 3rd Virginia Cavalry, on May 27, 1861 at Nottoway Court House, VA. He lost two horses in 1863, one at Kelly's Ford, VA in March and the second in June at Snickersville, VA. Irby was paroled at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. he had been promoted to seargeant by the end of the war.
Irby died Jan. 4, 1925 and is buried in Lakeview Cemetery in Blackstone, Nottoway County, VA. One her application for a Confederate pension, his widow Petronella lists his cause of death as "broken leg and old age."
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