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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Bennett Granville Henderson

(1838 - 1862)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

From a wealthy Memphis, TN family, he was a farmer at La Vernia in Guadalupe County, TX, by 1860, and he enlisted there as a Private in Company F, 4th Texas Infantry on 7 April 1862.

On the Campaign

He was with his Company in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was reported missing, not heard from, and presumed killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census for 1850 and 1860.

He married Mary Ann Morrison (later Cotton, 1839-1892) in Guadalupe County in September 1859, and they had twins in April 1862 - Bennet, Jr. (d. 1940) and Mary Lula.

Birth

1838 in TN

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 157-158 [AotW citation 1796]

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 26664]

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