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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Benjamin Franklin Gemes

(c. 1838 - 1863)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

An unmarried 24 year old farmer from Tallassee, AL, he enlisted on 19 July 1861 in Montgomery, AL and mustered as a Private in Company F of the 13th Alabama Infantry. He was discharged for disability on 29 October but re-enlisted at Orange Court House, VA on 17 August 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was paroled at Sharpsburg on 21 September. He died of typhoid fever on 26 February 1863 in the Charity Hospital in Gordonsville, VA. His father George filed a claim for his final pay in July 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, also as Benjamin F Gems, and the Archives, as Benj F Gemo.2 The family name also seen as James and Jems. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

His brother Virdell was also in Company F.

Birth

c. 1838 in GA

Death

02/26/1863; Gordonsville, VA; burial in Maplewood Cemetery, Gordonsville, VA

Notes

1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 32529]

2 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> [AotW citation 32530]

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