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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Benjamin Franklin Porter

(c. 1838 - 1862)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 23, he enlisted on 25 April 1861 at Crystal Springs, MS and mustered as a Private in Company C, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 26 May 1861 in Corinth, MS.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. He is also in a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862.

Birth

c. 1838

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 29616]

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