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Confederate (CSV)

Lieutenant

Benjamin F. Birdsall

(c. 1838 - 1862)

Home State: Louisiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Louisiana Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

His father died in 1839 when Benjamin was only a year old. In 1860 he was a 22 year old living with his step-father, sugar planter R.L. Sparks, mother, sister, 3 half-siblings, and 18 slaves on their plantation at Attakapas Canal in Assumption Parish, LA. Giving his occupation as clerk, he enrolled on 19 June 1861 and was appointed Junior 2nd Lieutenant of Company K, 8th Louisiana Infantry at Camp Moore, LA. He was 2nd Lieutenant by March 1862 and was promoted to First Lieutenant on 27 June.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from Booth,1 as Benjamin P. Birdsall, and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1838 in LA

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Booth, Andrew B., Records of Louisiana Confederate Soldiers and Louisiana Confederate Commands, 3 Volumes, New Orleans: State of Louisiana, 1920, Vol. 1, p. 193 [AotW citation 33697]

2 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 33698]

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