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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Benjamin F. Johnson

(c. 1842 - ?)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He was an unmarried 20 year old farmer from Fishpond, Coosa County, AL when he enlisted on 2 (or 23) March 1862 at Yorktown, VA and mustered as a Private in Company C 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 was wounded at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was on furlough from a Richmond, VA hospital in November 1862. He was wounded again, by a gunshot to his hand at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863. He was retired to the Invalid Corps on 15 April 1864 and signed a parole at Montgomery, AL on 23 May 1865.

References & notes

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

Birth

c. 1842 in MS

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 32662]

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 32663]

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