Wimbish enlisted as a private in Co. A of the 3rd VA Cavalry on May 14, 1861. He was absent from the company due to illness for several months from December 1861-March 1862 in Williamsburg, VA and again in May 1862 in Farmville, VA for diarrhea and was listed in October 1862 as deserted. He returned to his company and was hospitalized in Richmond, VA in late November 1863 for chronic diarrhea. He was wounded in the right thigh at the Battle of Trevilian Station, VA on June 11, 1864 and hospitalized in Charlottesville, VA from June 13-June 23, 1864. In january 1865, he was hospitalized once more in Charlottesville, this time for rheumatism.
After the war, he returned to Mecklenburg County, VA where he was a farmer in 1870. He is reported to have died in 1875.
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