This man's 14 page Compiled Military Service Record is available through the link below.

Austin Bledsoe originally enlisted in Captain S. P. Larmer's Company of Trigg's Battalion Partisan Rangers; Company "B", 27th Battalion Virginia Mounted Rifles and Company B, 25th Regiment Virginia Cavalry.

The 27th Battalion Virginia Cavalry Mounted Rifles or Partisan Rangers (also known as Trigg's Battalion Partisan Rangers)was organized about September 1, 1862. Captain Lyle's Company was added and designation changed to 25th Virginia Cavalry by Special Order No. 159.

For much of his service he was detailed as a "Blacksmith" according to the record.

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