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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Benjamin H. McCain

(? - 1862)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 6th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as Private, Company D (later E), 6th Alabama Infantry on 15 May 1861 in Montgopmery.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action near Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862

References & notes

His service from the State of Alabama.1 His death on South Mountain is in a casualty list for Rodes' Brigade in the Montgomery Weekly Advertiser of 8 October 1862. Personal details from the US Census of 1860.

Death

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

Notes

1   State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx>, Source page: /civilwar/soldier.cfm?id=128968  [AotW citation 25652]