Harry Gilmor, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Harry Gilmor

Confederate Army officer

Date of Birth: 24-Jan-1838

Date of Death: 04-Mar-1883

Profession: military officer

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Harry Ward Gilmor (January 24, 1838 – March 4, 1883) served as the Baltimore City Police Commissioner, head of the Baltimore City Police Department in the 1870s, but he was most noted as a daring and dashing Confederate cavalry officer during the American Civil War.
Gilmor's daring raids, such as The Magnolia Station Raid through north-central Maryland in July 1864 during the third major Confederate invasion of the North gained his partisans fame as "Gilmor's Raiders".