Imboden, John Daniel

Life Span
to
Full name
John Daniel Imboden
Place of Birth
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
South
Origins
Slave State
No. of Spouses
5
No. of Children
9
Family
George William Imboden (father) and Isabella Wunderlich (mother), Eliza McCue (first wife), Mary Wilson McPhail (second wife), Edna Porter (third wife), Anna Lockett (fourth wife), and Florence Crockett (fifth wife)
Education
Other
Other Education
Washington College
Occupation
Politician
Military
Attorney or Judge
Other Affiliations
Fire-Eaters (Secessionists)
Government
State legislature
Military
Confederate Army

John Daniel Imboden (American National Biography)

Scholarship
After the election of Abraham Lincoln, Imboden ran unsuccessfully for a seat in Virginia's secession convention. A friend of former Virginia governor and prominent secessionist Henry A. Wise, Imboden was also among those who advocated immediate secession from the Union.

When the Civil War broke out, Imboden raised and organized the Staunton Artillery and became its first captain. The newly organized battery was among the Virginia troops that occupied the abandoned Federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry on 19 April 1861. At the first battle of Bull Run (Manassas) on 21 July 1861, Imboden led his battery in action, supporting the brigade of General Barnard Bee in some of the thickest fighting to hold crucial Henry House Hill. Imboden's duties during the months after Bull Run remain unknown, but the next spring he appeared again, this time raising the First Partisan Rangers Regiment, later known as the Sixty-second Virginia Mounted Infantry, a formation of mounted troops intended to make guerrilla raids behind enemy lines. Nevertheless, he fought in "Stonewall" Jackson's forces at Cross Keys and Port Republic, 8 and 9 June 1862, in the Shenandoah Valley. The following winter Imboden was promoted to brigadier general on 28 January 1863. His command thereafter was the Northwestern Brigade of the Department of Northern Virginia.
Steven E. Woodworth, "Imboden, John Daniel," American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/05/05-00373.html.
Chicago Style Entry Link
Ayers, Edward L. In the Presence of Mine Enemies: War in the Heart of America 1859-1863. New York: W W Norton & Company, 2003. view record
How to Cite This Page: "Imboden, John Daniel," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/5953.