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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Benjamin Franklin Hood

(1845 - 1930)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A mechanic's son, in 1860 he was a 15 year old farm hand living with his parents and 6 siblings at Blake's Ferry in Randolph County, AL. Giving his age as 19, he and brother John enlisted on 6 July 1861 in Randolph County and mustered as Privates in Company D of the 13th Alabama Infantry. He was promoted to 2nd Corporal in April 1862, but reduced to Private again on 13 August.

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 captured at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863 and was a prisoner at Fort Delaware from 6 July 1863 to 14 June 1865, when he took an oath of allegiance to the United States and was released.

After the War

In 1880 he was a farmer in Bosque County, TX. In 1900 he was a picture agent (?) at Dublin in Erath County, TX and from 1910 to at least 1920 he operated a delivery wagon there.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and from the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1880-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

02/10/1845; Newton County, GA

Death

02/26/1930; Dublin, TX; burial in Old Dublin Memorial Park, Dublin, TX

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 32641]

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 32642]

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