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.