"Colonel Edwin Houston Harman was born February 13th, 1835, in the Bluestone Valley, Tazewell County. He was the son of Erastus Granger Harman, one of the first-bom generation of that section of the county. On the 2nd of April, 1861, he was married to Miss Jennie King at the bride's home on Back Creek, Pulaski County, Virginia; and a few days thereafter entered the service of the Confederate States as captain of Company A, 45th Regiment, Virginia Infantry. In the spring of 1862 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel of the regiment. He was a daring and accomplished soldier and officer; and it was strangely decreed by fate that he should fall in battle but a few miles distant from the place where he won his bride three years previously. On the 9th of May, 1864, Colonel Harman was mortally wounded at the battle of Cloyd's Mountain, and died from the wound two days later. His dust now rests in a heroe's grave in Thorn Spring Cemetery, about six miles west of where he fell in battle."
~History of Tazewell county and southwest Virginia, 1748-1920; by William Cecil Pendleton, 1847-1941, Page 641
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Contributor: Frieda Clark (47166751) •
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His parents were Erastus Granger Harman 1804-1852 and
Sallie Bane 1811-1897
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He married Nancy Jane King (1838-1910), on 2 April 1861.
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He was a Confederate Soldier
CO
45th Infantry Regiment
VA TROOPS
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Col. Harman was mortally wounded in the Battle of Cloyd's Mountain on 9 May 1864 and died on 11 May at the old Darst place, leaving a widow and two boys.
(Charles William (1862-1944) and King Edwin (1863-?)
His regiment fought at Carnifex Ferry, reporting 26 killed, 96 wounded, 46 captured, and 6 missing in the fight at Cloyd's Mountain; then saw action in the Shenandoah Valley. It sustained many casualties at Third Winchester and in April 1865, disbanded. The field officers were Colonels William H. Browne, Henry Heth, and W.E. Peters; Lieutenant Colonels Benjamin F. Ficklin, Edwin H. Harman, and William H. Werth; and Majors A.M. Davis, William C. Sanders, and Gabriel C. Wharton.
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The above information taken from the book "Units of the Confederate Army" by Joseph H. Crute, Jr.
Published by Derwent Books, Midlothian, Virginia. 1987.
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The following from the Library of Va.:
Harman, Edwin Houston. Letters, 1860-1864.
Accession 27935. 32 leaves Photostats (negative).
Letters, 1860-1864, from Edwin Houston Harman (1835-1864) of Tazewell County, Virginia, to his cousin Harriet Louisa Fudge (1842-1922) of Tazewell County, discussing life in Tazewell County.
His wife, Jennie, and their two boys.
Harriett's brother Charlie.
Other family and personal news.
Harman also provides news about his regiment, the 45th Virginia Infantry, describing camp life and some of the fighting the regiment was involved in.
Letter, 22 April 1863, from Edwin H. Harman (1835-1864), Lieutenant Colonel of the 45th Virginia Infantry Regiment at Red Sulpher Springs, Virginia.
To his cousin, Harriet Louisa Fudge, relating his boredom with army life and disappointment in the inability of his regiment to visit Tazewell in the foreseeable future.
He writes about the welfare of his family and requests that she visit them if possible.
Finally, he questions the conduct of the War and writes that the political tactics of the generals and leaders is making him doubt the patriotism in man.
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Papers, 1598-1922, of the Historic Crab Orchard Museum in Tazewell County, Virginia, consisting of letters, marriage bonds, legal documents and miscellaneous papers concerning individuals primarily in and around Tazewell County.
Papers include many Civil War letters of the Harman family including Lieutenant Colonel Edwin H. Harman, Jinnie King Harman and Sallie Banes Harman, and Harriet Fudge.
Letters of the Preston family, The Tynes family, Jubal A. Early, Wade Hampton, Thomas Hart Benton, Benjamin Watkins Leigh, M. C. Lee, and Isaac Shelby.
An 1848 Fourth of July address to the Washington Artillery. A list of owners of rifles in Sullivan County, Tennessee.
A ca. 1598 English deed.
Tazewell County marriage bonds 1804, 1837; and legal documents including articles of agreement.