Pvt. Edward H. "Ned" Walter,
Pvt., Co. A, 1st Va. Cavalryb. ca. 1842 (age 21 in 1863)
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d. before 1900Ned Walter enlisted in the First Virginia Cavalry in August 1861 at Fairfax Courthouse, as a substitute for B.F. Harmon.
Although he is not listed among the "original 15" detailed to Mosby from the 1st Virginia Cavalry on January 18, 1863, he has positively been identified as one of these men by Mosby researchers Hugh Keen and Horace Mewborn, as he is one of three men from the first Virginia (the others being Fount Beattie and Thomas Beaty) who are listed in the records of the Old Capitol Prison as having been captured in Middleburg on January 27. (Reminiscences of Mosby and hsi men merely state that Fount Beattie and two others were captured.)
He is listed on the January-February muster roll of the First Virginia as "detailed to Cpt. Mosby" However, that was stricken through and changed to "absent with leave" (presumably because he family was in the Fairfax area?)
As a local resident, he could have proved invaluable to Mosby through his knowledge of the area, had he not been captured so early.
He was exchanged at City Point on March 29 and apparently returned to Mosby's command as he was captured again at Newtown (Now Stephens City)
He was sent to Wheeling and thence ot Camp Chase prison camp and from there to Johnson's Island. He was transferred to Point Lookout in October 1863. In January of 1864, he requested a clerkship in the Treasury Department until he could be exchanged. That must have impressed someone in a position of authority, as he received his parole the following month.
Following his parole, he returned to the First Virginia Infantry, where he served for the balance of the War.
After the War, he worked as a clerk in Maryland and was a member of the Army Navy Society of the Maryland Line Association of Baltimore. In 1892, he was admitted at age 60 to the Maryland Line Confederate Soldier's Home in Pkesvile, Maryland. For some reason, he was expelled on June 1, 1897 (possibly because of drinking ??? many of these soldiers homes allowed NO alcohol whatsoever.) He died prior to 1900.
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