Flippen served as a private in Co. G of the 3rd VA Cavalry, the Cumberland Light Dragoons. His date of enlistment is unknown and there is some thought that he may have served in other units, due to variations of his name in census records (Manville A., Menville A., Maurice Menville A.). He was captured on March 17, 1865 in King William County, VA and sent to the POW camp at Point Lookout, MD, where he was paroled on June 4, 1865. He is listed on a roll of sick prisoners of war having taken the oath of allegiance.
After the war, Flippen returned to Cumberland County, VA, where he is listed as a retired merchant in the 1880 census and as a farmer in later censuses; he is missing from the 1870 census. He died November 12, 1917 and is buried at the Mill View Cemetery in Cumberland County (Mill View was his wife's family, the Hobsons, home). Visitors to the cemetery in 1997 recorded his grave as Menville A. Flippen, with Co. G, Va. Cav., CSA inscribed upon it.
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