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Provisional Army of Virginia from April 27, 1861 until December 1861. The Provisional Army of Virginia was formally transferred to the Confederate States Army on June 8, 1861. Some state militia units remained under state control.
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Stonewall Brigade (from May 7, 1861 to April 1862), Harman suffered health problems and was not appointed colonel in the April 1862 reorganization of the Confederate Army. Harman served briefly as an aide-de-camp to Brigadier General
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Hotchkiss, Jedidiah, "Make me a map of the Valley: the Civil War journal of Stonewall Jackson's topographer", Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1973,
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Governor Letcher refused to give his official approval of the action, the men decided to act on their own. Harman was sent to Staunton to raise volunteers to follow Imboden's battery to Harpers Ferry. When the
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