Son of Charles and Mary Bright Girten.
Valentine married Frances Elizabeth SHANKS on 15 Sep 1867 in Union Co., Kentucky.
Valentine was a Confederate veteran, serving in Co. F, 10th KY. Cavalry C.S.A., the "10th KY. Partisan Rangers", with his brother Thomas, 1862-1865.
The Kentucky Adjutant General's Report states;
"Liberty, Tenn., Dec. 31, 1862 - This Company was raised in Union County, Ky., and participated in most of the engagements which gave the reputation to the Regiment, which it now enjoys, it was in the battle of Donelson-Rolling Mills, Madisonville, Uniontown, Owensboro, Geiger's Lake and several others of minor importance. It was with General Morgan in his last expedition to Kentucky, and participated in the engagements at Elizabethtown, Bacon Creek and Muldrough's Hill."
Valentine was captured by Union forces near Chattanooga, TN. in Sept. 1863. He was sent to the Camp Morton, Indiana POW camp where he remained imprisoned until his release near the end of the war in March, 1865.
Valentine was released due to the efforts of his brother Benedict Girten, who learned that Valentine was near the point of death from sickness and starvation in the Union POW camp.
In the 1880s Valentine was listed as a parishioner of St. Agnes Catholic Church in Uniontown, KY.
His widow Francis Shanks Girten received a pension from the Commonwealth of Kentucky for his Confederate service in 1916.
In her widow's pension application she stated that Valentine never fully recovered from his ordeal as a POW at Camp Morton which shortened his life.
Valentine was buried at St. Agnes Cemetery according to the book "The Civil War Soldiers of Union County, Kentucky".
Son of Charles and Mary Bright Girten.
Valentine married Frances Elizabeth SHANKS on 15 Sep 1867 in Union Co., Kentucky.
Valentine was a Confederate veteran, serving in Co. F, 10th KY. Cavalry C.S.A., the "10th KY. Partisan Rangers", with his brother Thomas, 1862-1865.
The Kentucky Adjutant General's Report states;
"Liberty, Tenn., Dec. 31, 1862 - This Company was raised in Union County, Ky., and participated in most of the engagements which gave the reputation to the Regiment, which it now enjoys, it was in the battle of Donelson-Rolling Mills, Madisonville, Uniontown, Owensboro, Geiger's Lake and several others of minor importance. It was with General Morgan in his last expedition to Kentucky, and participated in the engagements at Elizabethtown, Bacon Creek and Muldrough's Hill."
Valentine was captured by Union forces near Chattanooga, TN. in Sept. 1863. He was sent to the Camp Morton, Indiana POW camp where he remained imprisoned until his release near the end of the war in March, 1865.
Valentine was released due to the efforts of his brother Benedict Girten, who learned that Valentine was near the point of death from sickness and starvation in the Union POW camp.
In the 1880s Valentine was listed as a parishioner of St. Agnes Catholic Church in Uniontown, KY.
His widow Francis Shanks Girten received a pension from the Commonwealth of Kentucky for his Confederate service in 1916.
In her widow's pension application she stated that Valentine never fully recovered from his ordeal as a POW at Camp Morton which shortened his life.
Valentine was buried at St. Agnes Cemetery according to the book "The Civil War Soldiers of Union County, Kentucky".
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