Benjamin Apling Burdette

In 1860 he was a 25 year old farmer at Wedowee in Randolph County, AL. He enlisted in Eastville, AL on 12 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company E, 13th Alabama Infantry. He was appointed 5th Sergeant on 31 August 1862.

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

He was reduced again to Private on 1 January 1863. He was captured at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863. He was a prisoner at Fort Delaware until he took an oath of allegiance to the United States and was released on 14 June 1865.

He went to Texas soon after the war, and by 1870 and to at least 1880 was a farmer in Leon County, TX. In 1900 he was farming in Comanche County, TX, and in 1910, then age 74, he was still a farmer, in Bosque County, TX. He'd finally retired by 1920 and lived with his wife in Meridian, TX.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and the Archives,2 both as Benjamin A Burdett. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave, source also of an excellent post-war photograph.

He married Amelia Elizabeth “Millie” Hood (1838-1926) in January 1855 and they had 12 children, 8 of whom lived to adulthood.

His brothers Littleton and John were also in Company E. Both were wounded, Littleton mortally, at Sharpsburg.

12/23/1835; DeKalb County, GA

09/14/1921; Meridian, TX; burial in Meridian Cemetery, Meridian, TX