Old, a farmer in Norfolk, VA, enlisted as a private in Co. I of the 5th VA Cavalry on June 20, 1861. He was promoted to corporal on July 15, 1861. On April 5, 1862, he was transferred to the 14th Battalion VA Cavalry, where he appears on rolls as a sergeant. This later became Co. F of the 15th VA Cavalry, the St. Brides Cavalry. Old was wounded on December 13, 1862 near Fredericksburg, VA. He was hospitalized in Richmond, VA at Chimborazo Hospital with typhoid fever for most of the month of July 1863.
After the war, he returned to farming in Norfolk. He died sometime before 1880, when his wife is listed as a widow in the census.
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