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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Benjamin Richard Carlton

(c. 1839 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Artillery

Unit: Troup (GA) Artillery

Before Sharpsburg

An unmarried brickmason, about 23 years old, he enlisted as a Private in the Troup Artillery on 1 March 1862.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action- "shot through the heart" - in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

His remains were "buried near a large walnut tree in Smith's field [near Sharpsburg], but have been disinterred by friends" by 1868.

References & notes

His service from Henderson.1 Burial information in Pruett,2 from the 1868 Bowie List. Personal details from family genealogists and the 1860 US Census.

His brother Henry was Captain of the battery.

Birth

c. 1839; Athens, GA

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 24057]

2 Pruett, Samuel, and Poffenberger & Good, Greg Farino and Western Maryland Regional Library (WMRL), Washington Confederate Cemetery, possible burials, Hagerstown (MD): WHILBR, 2010, pg. 11 [AotW citation 24058]

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