Benjamin Milikin

In 1860 he was an 18 year old living with his parents and 9 siblings on their small farm near near Holmesville in Appling County, GA. He enlisted at Camp Stephens in Griffin, GA on 9 September 1861 and mustered as a Sergeant in Company I of the 27th Georgia Infantry. He was reduced to Corporal by January 1862 and to Private by February, having been absent, sick, for at least 2 months.

He was wounded by a gunshot to his right thigh "causing paralysis of the leg and foot" in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and captured there.

He was treated in a US field hospital on the battlefield, paroled on 27 September, and sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD. He was sent to Fort McHenry in Baltimore, date not found, and transferred to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange on 27 October. He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 4 November and furloughed home for 40 days on 11 November, departing on 17 November. He was still on furlough at the end of December 1862 with no later record with the 27th Infantry found; he may have been discharged for disability in February 1863.

He enrolled in Savannah, GA on 26 April 1864 and was appointed Captain of Company F, First (Symon's) Georgia Reserve Infantry, but was absent, sick, from 3 July to at least 24 September. He was captured at Savannah on 21 December 1864, a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD to 1 February 1865, briefly at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC, then sent to Fort Delaware on 2 (or 8) February. He took an oath of allegiance to the United States there on 17 June and was released.

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was farming his own place in Appling County, GA, and had a gin and grist mill at Holmesville. In 1889 he bought the Jesup Sentinel and by 1900 and to 1910 he was a farmer at Jesup in Wayne County, GA.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online via fold3, also indexed under Benjamin Milliken. Wound detail from a casualty list in the Atlanta Southern Confederacy   of 18 November 1862. Personal details from family genealogists, Sholes Georgia State Gazetteer (1879-80), his 1908 and later pension applications, and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Martha Makiha Hopps (1850-1947) in June 1868 and they had as many as 15 children.

12/13/1842; Appling County, GA

02/26/1921; Jesup, GA; burial in Jesup City Cemetery, Jesup, GA