Benjamin Harris Brantley

In 1860 he was a 24 year old farmer at Sandersville in Washington County, GA. He mustered as a Private in Company H, 28th Georgia Infantry on 25 August 1861 and was elected 2nd Lieutenant on 19 December.

He was mortally mortally wounded in the right arm and left hip and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was treated at the US Army field hospital on the Susan Hoffman farm at Sharpsburg, and paroled there on 1 October, but he died of wounds on 5 October 1862, probably on the S.G. Grove farm. He was originally buried on the field at Sharpsburg at the "the northern edge of Stephen Grove's woods." His widow Elmira filed for his final pay in February 1863.

He was probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

Burial information from Pruett,1 who has him as Lt. H.B. Brantley. His service from the Roster 2 and his Compiled Service Records,3 online from fold3; he signed his name Brantly. He's also on a list in the New York Times of 12 October 1862, as B.H. Brentley. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His memorial is on Findagrave.

He married Elmina Rebecca Eliza Jane "Mina" Smith (later Braswell, 1846-1936) in December 1859; she was just 13 years old.

c. 1835; Sandersville, GA

10/05/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD