Gamble, Henry R.

Life Span
to
Dickinson Connection
Class of 1861
Full name
Henry R. Gamble
Place of Birth
Birth Date Certainty
Estimated
Death Date Certainty
Estimated
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
South
Origins
Slave State
No. of Spouses
1
Education
Dickinson (Carlisle College)
Occupation
Military
Military
Confederate Army

Henry R. Gamble (Dickinson Chronicles)

Scholarship
Henry R. Gamble was from Moorefield in western Virginia and a member of prominent slave-owning family in the town. He entered Dickinson College in the fall of 1857 as part of the class of 1861. He was a member of the Union Philosophical Society, but withdrew from the College before graduation to enlist in the service of the Confederate States at the outbreak of the Civil War. He served in the 12th Virginia. Gamble died at Beverly, West Virginia in 1864.
John Osborne and James W. Gerencser, eds., “ Henry R. Gamble,” Dickinson Chronicles, http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/g/ed_gambleH.htm.
How to Cite This Page: "Gamble, Henry R.," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/5696.