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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Benjamin Edward Bevill

(1838 - 1862)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 12th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as Private, Company G, 12th Alabama Infantry, date not given.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

A casualty list for Rodes' Brigade in the Montgomery Weekly Advertiser of 8 October 1862 has him as B.E. Beril, and says he was wounded on South Mountain. A sketch of the regiment in the SHSP 2 says he was killed at Sharpsburg (offset, like the others on the list, by one battle), as Edward Bevil. Personal details from family genealogists.

Birth

1838 in AL

Death

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

Notes

1 Southern Historical Society, and Rev. John William Jones, Robert Alonzo Brock, James Power Smith, editors, Southern Historical Society Papers, 52 Vols., Richmond: Southern Historical Society, 1876-1959, Vol. 33, pg. 208 [AotW citation 25701]

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