Benjamin L. Mobley

A planter's son, in 1860 he was a 17 year old farm hand living with his parents, 6 siblings, and 6 slaves on their place at Friar's Pond in Burke County, GA. Giving his age as 19, he enlisted in Waynesboro, GA on 8 August 1861 and mustered in Richmond, VA on 12 August as a Private in Company E of the Infantry Battalion, Cobb's Legion.

He was "dangerously" wounded by gunshots to his neck, hip, and thigh in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and captured there.

He was treated at the US 6th Army Corps field hospital in Burkittsville, MD then admitted to the US Army General Hospital at Camp A in Frederick, MD on 16 November. He was sent on to Fort McHenry in Baltimore on 28 November, then to Fortress Monroe, VA for exchange. He was admitted to a CS hospital in Petersburg VA on 4 December and sent home on a 90 day furlough on 19 December 1862.

He was captured again at Mine Run, VA on 6 May 1864 and held at Point Lookout, MD to 10 August, when he was transferred to Elmira, NY. He took an oath of allegiance to the United States there on 3 July 1865 and was released.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

His brother James was also in Company E and wounded at Crampton's Gap.

c. 1843 in GA