Street, a farmer in Lunenburg County, VA, enlisted as a private in Co. G of the 9th VA Cavalry on June 9, 1861. He was discharged for disability on June 26, 1861 in Ashland, VA, the postwar home of R-MC. According to his widow's pension application, he had contracted a fever which settled into one leg and disabled him for life. The surgeon examining him in 1861 at the training camp in Ashland, however, indicates obesity as the cause, stating that "he is so corpulent as to find great difficulty in mounting and dismounting his horse."
After the war, Street returned to farming in Lunenburg County, VA. Street was a teacher in Lunenburg County, VA in the 1880 census. He died May 8, 1895 and is buried in Richmond, VA in Hollywood Cemetery.
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