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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Benjamin A. Hastings

(c. 1841 - ?)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 20 year old farmer from Greenville, AL, he enlisted there on 3 July (or in Montgomery on 19 July) 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company G of the 13th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was appointed First Corporal on 1 December 1862 but reduced again to Private on 1 February 1863. He was appointed 4th Sergeant on 1 August 1863 and continued in action with his unit until he was wounded by a gunshot at Davis Farm near Petersburg, VA on 19 August 1864. He was furloughed home for 40 days from a Richmond, VA hospital on 6 September and returned to duty in October 1864. He was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and from the Alabama Archives.2

Birth

c. 1841 in AL

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 32581]

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 32582]

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