 Complete the following phrase:  Born in Waynesboro, Virginia, to the former Sarah Jane Garber and her husband Lewis Harman 1794-1840, his father died when he was 16 years old. His maternal grandfather, John Cunningham, had been a member of Stauntons Committee of Safety in the American Revolutionary War, as well as captain of a cavalry company in the Virginia militia. John received a private education suitable to his class. He had an elder brother Michael Garber Harman 1823-1877 and younger brothers William Henry Harman 1828-1865, Asher Waterman Harman 1830-1895 and Thomas Lewis Harman 1831-1861. His four brothers would likewise fight in the Confederate States Army, but mostly as quartermasters, and two died. William H. Harman, a prominent local lawyer, would begin the war as a Brigadier General of the Virginia militia and helped secure the Harpers Ferry arsenal immediately after secession. However, health problems caused him to be assigned as an aide-de-camp to Brig. Gen. Edward Johnson and to command reservists in the Shedoah Valley; he would die in 