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Confederate (CSV)

Major

Benjamin F. Davis

(1831 - 1893)

Home State: Florida

Command Billet: Commanding Regiment

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 5th Florida Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enrolled and was commissioned First Lieutenant of Company E, 5th Florida Infantry on 26 February 1862 in Madison County, FL and was was elected Major at the reorganization on 8 April 1862.

On the Campaign

He took command of the regiment as next senior officer after Lieutenant Colonel Lamar was wounded at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was wounded in action at Chancellorsville, VA in May 1863 while in command of the Regiment. He was cashiered from the service - dismissed by order of a court martial - on 11 April 1864.

References & notes

His service from the State of Florida1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

01/16/1831 in SC

Death

05/05/1893; burial in Elam Community Baptist Church Cemetery, Quitman, GA

Notes

1 State of Florida, Board of State Institutions, Soldiers of Florida in the Seminole Indian, Civil and Spanish-American Wars, Live Oak (FL): Democrat Print, 1903, pp. 136, 143 [AotW citation 15451]

2 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 29828]

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