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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Benjamin Stockton Terrell

"Ben"

(1842 - 1928)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

An 18 year old farm boy, he enlisted in Gonzales County as a Private in Company A, 4th Texas Infantry on 18 March 1862.

On the Campaign

He was with his Company in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was in a hospital in Richmond, VA by 6 October He was absent, wounded, into January 1864, when he was listed as "supposed to be a deserter in Texas ... since Feb. 1863" but he was listed one of the enlisted men "casually at post" with the 33rd Texas Cavalry for the month of May 1864 having been attached since 8 September 1863. He was paroled in Guadalupe County, TX on 30 August 1865.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and from his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Katherine Henrietta Heaner (1856-1934) in February 1876.

Birth

07/10/1842; Colorado County, TX

Death

03/18/1928; Seguin, TX; burial in San Geronimo Cemetery, Seguin, TX

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 148-150, 315-316 [AotW citation 1650]

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 26595]

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