Harvey Coverstone
18th Virginia Cavalry
Company G

136 Virginia Militia
Company C
 Private

Son of Mary Golladay and Peter Coverstone

 

Harvey enlisted in the Confederate militia in the summer of 1861. He was discharged later that year to make iron.

He later enlisted in the 23rd Virginia Cavalry.

Harvey was married to Sarah A. Shipe with four living children at the start of the Civil War. He had one child born during the war and three more born after the war had ended.

In 1885, he made his living as a farmer near Mine Run Furnace.

Harvey was 78 years old when on died on 08 April 1905.
 

   Buried at: Boyer Cemetery in Fort Valley (Shenandoah County), Virginia  
 

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