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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Benjamin Franklin Merryman

(1836 - 1897)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in Robertson County as a Private in Company C, 4th Texas Infantry on 15 July 1861. He was wounded at Gaines Mill, VA on 27 June 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

After the War

In 1880 he was a farmer in Robertson County, TX.

References & notes

Service information from Davis,1 as B.F. McVoyman, and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3, also as W.B. Merriman. Personal details from family genealogists the US Census for 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Ann McMillan (1848-1937) and they had 6 children between 1869 and 1883.

Birth

12/18/1836; Monroe County, AL

Death

02/02/1897; Robertson County, TX; burial in Owensville Cemetery East, Owensville, TX

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 152-153 [AotW citation 1716]

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 26813]

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