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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Benjamin Franklin Herring

(1842 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was an 18 year old worker on his parents' farm at Danielsville in Madison County, GA. He enlisted as Private in Company A, 16th Georgia Infantry on 11 July 1861.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action on 14 September 1862 at Crampton's Gap.

References & notes

Basic information from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His memorial is on Findagrave; he's not listed by name as among those buried in Rose Hill, Hagerstown, but could be there as an unknown.

Birth

1842; Madison County, GA

Death

09/14/1862; Crampton's Gap, MD

Notes

1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 12162]

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 31369]

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