Postbellum
After the war, Imboden moved to Richmond, Virginia, where he resumed his work as a lawyer, serving first in Richmond and then in Abingdon, the county seat of Washington County. Around 1886, he moved to southwestern Virginia and where he hoped to mine coal and iron ore deposits at Damascus, Virginia, a town he founded, which became a lumber center in the late 19th and early 20th century. He died in Damascus in 1895, and is buried in the Generals section of Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia.
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