Company H · 4th Virginia Cavalry · Black Horse
Bolivar Ward
1825–1895
Confederate Service Record
Enlisted 20 August 1864; AWOL September to October 1863; absent on fishing detail April 1864; entered Soldiers’ Home Richmond June 1893, age 68.
Bolivar Ward M K Y Photo: Born: Around 1825 if age 68 in 1893.[4176] Married: Died: After 21 March 1895.[4177] Obituary: Children: Parents and Siblings: Other Family: Stories, Letters & Biographies: Alexander Hunter [BH] wrote, “A scout can sleep anywhere, even as Bolivar Ward used to say, he could slumber in the bed of a stream, enwrapped in a sheet of water.”[4178] CSR: Enlisted 20 August 1864; AWOL September to October 1863; absent on fishing detail April 1864; entered Soldiers’ Home Richmond June 1893, age 68. Additional Information: Listed as “Bolliver Ward.”[4179] He entered the Richmond Soldiers’ Home on 30 June 1893 at age 63 and left “at own request” on 21 March 1895.[4180]
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Source Rosters
- M Martin Roll (most authoritative)
- K K.I. Keith Roster (1924)
- Y Nanzig Register
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Suggest a correction →From A Biographical Register of the Members of Fauquier County Virginia's Black Horse Cavalry, 1859–1865. Compiled by Lynn C. Hopewell (1940–2006), with editorial assistance by Susan W. Roberts and research by Heidi Burke. Manuscript completed February 28, 2008. Published posthumously.