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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Benjamin Franklin Everett

(c. 1841 - 1897)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 19 year old farm worker on his widowed mother's place in Jasper County, MS; also in the household was 22 year old school teacher Thomas Green. He and Green enlisted on 27 April 1861 at Paulding, Jasper County, MS and they mustered as a Private in Company F, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 31 May in Corinth. He was left as a nurse at Winchester, VA and captured about 30 May 1862. He was exchanged at Aiken's Landing, VA to return to duty on 5 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the head in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was wounded again, at Fredericksburg, VA on 13 December 1862. He was with his Company to at least December 1864 with no later military record.

After the War

By 1870 (then listed as Franklin) and to at least 1880 he was a wheelwright at Paulding, MS.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound from a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880.

He married Elizabeth "Bettie" Blackwell (1845-1915) and they had 4 daughters between 1869 and 1873.

Birth

c. 1841 in MS

Death

1897; burial in Antioch Cemetery, Turnerville, MS

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 29663]

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