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Confederate (CSV)

Lieutenant

Benjamin Reed

(1837 - 1913)

Home State: Virginia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 37th Virginia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted and mustered as Private, Company F, 37th Virginia Infantry in Glade Spring, VA on 25 April 1861. He was appointed First Sergeant in January 1862 and commissioned First Lieutenant on 15 April 1862.

On the Campaign

He was slightly wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was captured at Spotsylvania Court House, VA on 12 May 1864, held at Point Lookout, MD, then transferred to Fort Delaware on 25 June. He was released 16 June 1865 after taking the oath of allegiance.

After the War

He was living in Moab, Washington County, VA in 1905.

References & notes

His service from Rankin1 via the Historical Data Systems database. His Sharpsburg wound from a casualty list in the Abingdon Virginian of 3 October 1862 online from the Library of Congress. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

05/30/1837

Death

11/28/1913; Washington County, VA; burial in Rock Spring Cemetery, Glade Spring, VA

Notes

1 Rankin, Thomas M., 37th Virginia Infantry, Lynchburg: H.E. Howard, Inc., 1987 [AotW citation 21799]

1 Rankin, Thomas M., 37th Virginia Infantry, Lynchburg: H.E. Howard, Inc., 1987 [AotW citation 21800]

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