Sunday, February 19, 2012

Isham Eppes Hargrave, student 1857-1860

Hargrave enlisted as a private in Co. E of the 3rd VA Cavalry. On June 12, 1864, he was assigned to the Chesterfield (VA) Light Artillery and promoted to sergeant on September 1, 1864. Hargrave was admitted to a hospital in petersburg, VA on August 10, 1864, and was apparently demoted after deserting from the hospital on September 22, 1864, as he is listed as private on later muster rolls and when he was paroled at a hospital in Farmville, VA, where he had been admitted on April 7, 1865.

Hargrave died at age 27 on March 4, 1869 and is buried in the Pegram and Hargrave family cemetery in Dinwiddie County, VA.

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