Benjamin Alpheus Pattillo

He came to Texas from Georgia in 1854 and was a farmer. He enlisted in Athens, TX (or in Harrisburg, TX) as a Private in Company K, 4th Texas Infantry on 11 (or 15) July 1861.

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

He was frequently in the rear or in Richmond hospital, sick, into mid-1863. He was captured at Lookout Valley/Wauhatchie near Chattanooga, TN on 29 October 1863, sent to Louisville, KY on 3 November, and on to the prison at Camp Morton at Indianapolis, IN the next day. He was transferred to Point Lookout, MD for exchange on 19 February 1865. He was in Howard's Grove Hospital in Richmond, VA by 4 March 1865, sick with scorbutus (scurvy), and was furloughed on 12 March with no later military record.

In 1870 he was a farm hand at Eatonton in Putnam County, GA and in 1880 he was a book agent in Fort Meade, Polk County, FL. He was admitted to the Confederate Home in Austin, TX in September 1889.

Service information from Davis1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3, also as B.A. Patillow. Personal details from his profile from the Texas State Cemetery, family genealogists, and the US Census of 1870 and 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his stone has him as B.A. Patillo. HIs father and siblings spell it Pattillo, but he may have used Patillo later in life.

He married the widow Catherine Ann Matilda Fuller Lazenby (1827-1912) in October 1866 in Putnam County, GA and they had at least two boys. They probably also raised Marcus Lazenby (b. 1851), her son from her previous marriage. Marcus was living with his mother and half brother Ed Pattillo in Putnam County in 1910.

06/03/1827 in GA

09/11/1891; Austin, TX; burial in Texas State Cemetery, Austin, TX