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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

Cordle D. Harmeling

Home State: Virginia

Branch of Service: Cavalry

Before Sharpsburg

By 1860 he owned a lot in the town of Goodson (later Bristol), VA. He enlisted at Lynchburg on 13 May 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, 2nd Virginia Cavalry. He was detailed as courier to General D.H. Hill on 17 December 1861 and was probably promoted to Sergeant, date not given.

On the Campaign

From General D.H. Hill's Report:

Sergeant Harmeling and Privates Thomas Jones and Minter, of the couriers, acquitted themselves handsomely.

The rest of the War

He was with General Hill to at least April 1863 and was listed as Sergeant of Couriers in May 1865.

References & notes

His service from Driver1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3.

Notes

1 Driver, Robert J., 2nd Virginia Cavalry, Lynchburg: H. E. Howard Inc., 1995 [AotW citation 17597]

2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 33985]

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