Benjamin L. Estes

In 1860 he was an unmarried 17 year old living with his parents, six siblings, and grandfather Estes on their small farm at Rockford in Coosa County, AL. He enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F, 13th Alabama Infantry.

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

He was wounded at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May and was captured at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863. He was a prisoner at Fort Delaware by 6 July and died there of "inflammation of the lungs" on 12 February 1864.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and the Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

His father Hezekiah enlisted in Company F in June 1862, was also captured at Gettysburg, and also died while a prisoner at Fort Delaware, in 1863.

c. 1843 in AL

02/12/1864; Fort Delaware, DE; burial in Finn's Point National Cemetery, Pennsville, NJ