Griswold was a farmer in Dinwiddie County, Va when he enlisted as a private on May 29, 1861 in Co. I of the 3rd VA Cavalry. He was hospitalized in Chimborazo Hospital in Richmond, Va in May 1862 for diarrhea. He was discharged September 9, 1862 to serve as a Justice of the Peace.
After the war, he returned to Dinwiddie County, VA and farmed. He is listed as a farmer and merchant in the 1880 census. He died in 1888 and is buried in the Abernathey Cemetery in Dinwiddie County, VA.
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