Harry Gilmor

Gilmor was born at "Glen Ellen", the Jacobethan/English Tudor-styled "Castle" family estate, a 25 minute walk from present-day Providence Rd, (its ruins stand about 100 yards from the waters of the Loch Raven Reservoir), just north of Towsontown in central Baltimore County, Maryland.

During the American Civil War, as a member of the "Baltimore County Horse Guards" under Captain Charles Carnan Ridgely, Jr.'s of Hampton Mansion, near present-day Towson, Maryland, Gilmor was arrested and imprisoned in Fort McHenry following the "Pratt Street Riots" of April 19th, 1861, with the subsequent occupation of Baltimore and Fort Federal Hill by Federal troops under Gen. Benjamin F. Butler of the 6th & 8th Massachusetts state militia in May 1861.

Upon his release, he traveled South and eventually rejoined the fighting serving, for a while, under General Turner Ashby.

As part of the third major Confederate invasion of the North, this under commanding Gen. Jubal Early with several corps of troops on a mission to attack the national capital at Washington, D.C., and possibly liberate Southern prisoners-of-war at Camp Point Look-Out in southern Maryland at the confluence of the Chesapeake Bay and Potomac River in St. Mary's County.

Early on July 11, Gilmor's advance group passed the home of Ishmael Day on Sunshine Avenue in Fork.

Day, a strong Union sympathizer, had hung a large United States flag to greet Gilmor's troops.

At about 8:40 in the morning on July 11, Gilmor's cavalrymen reached the station and proceeded to stop two northbound trains from Baltimore.

Gilmor was eventually ordered to take his command to Hardy County, West Virginia, and attack the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.

Gilmor's funeral was a large local ceremonial event with many dignitaries present to honor his war and civil service.