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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Benjamin Franklin Williams

(c. 1836 - ?)

Home State: Arkansas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd Arkansas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 24, he enlisted in Company H, 3rd Arkansas Infantry at Tyro, Arkansas on 15 June 1861.

On the Campaign

He was reported missing in action on 17 September 1862 at Sharpsburg.

The rest of the War

To December 1862 he was listed on the Company muster roll as "missing since the battle of Sharpsburg & not heard from since."

References & notes

Service information from Howerton1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3.

Birth

c. 1836

Notes

1   Howerton, Bryan R., Roster of the Third Arkansas Infantry Regiment, CSA, Published 1998, <http://www.couchgenweb.com/civilwar/3rd-his.html>, Source page: /civilwar/3rdcoh.html  [AotW citation 13872]

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 27774]