Chancellor Benjamin

Age 19, of 2089 Winter Street in Philadelphia, he enlisted and mustered in that city as Private, Company F, 118th Pennsylvania Infantry on 7 August 1862.

He was mortally wounded by gunshot to his right thigh in action at Shepherdstown Ford on 20 September 1862.

He spent the night on the riverbank and was picked up the next day. He was treated in a private home in Sharpsburg for several days, taken to Frederick, MD, and then on to Philadelphia, PA - being admitted to the Broad and Cherry Streets hospital on 27 September. His wound seemed to be healing but he developed a large abscess in his hip and was debilitated by diarrhea. He died of "exhaustion" on 22 November 1862.

Service information from Smith1, as Chanceler Benjamin. Wound and hospital details from Otis.2

His street address is from a Report of the Christian Commission of Philadelphia printed in the Philadelphia War Press of 30 September 1862, online from the Pennsylvania Newspaper Archive. That Report describes a visit by Commission staff and medical personnel to the scene on both sides of the ford on the Potomac on 21 September, the day after the battle, particularly their location of the dead and wounded of the Corn Exchange Regiment.

c. 1843

11/22/1862; Philadelphia, PA