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Federal (USV)

Private

Benjamin F. Belknap

(c. 1839 - 1862)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 17th Michigan Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 23, from Monroe, he enlisted 24 July and mustered as Private, Company I, 17th Michigan Infantry on 16 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain, MD on 14 September 1862.

References & notes

Service from Record of Service.1

Birth

c. 1839

Death

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

Notes

1 State of Michigan, Office of the Adjutant General, and George H. Brown, Adjutant General; George H. Turner, Asst. AG, compiler, Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War, 1861-1865, 46 volumes, Kalamazoo: Ihling Bros. & Everard, 1904-1915, Vol. 17, pg. 10 [AotW citation 20153]

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