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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Benjamin C. LaPrade

(? - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 28th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

From Meriwether County, he enlisted at Camp Tephens, GA on 10 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company E, 28th Georgia Infantry. He was wounded at Seven Pines, VA on 31 May 1862.

On the Campaign

He was noted by Brigadier General Colquitt for gallantry in Maryland and was mortally wounded and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died between 17 and 29 September in a field hospital on the Line farm near Sharpsburg. He was probably originally buried on the farm and reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References & notes

Burial information from Pruett.1. His service from the Roster 2 and his Compiled Service Records,3 online from fold3, as LaPrad. The Colquitt citation is from General D H Hill's after-action report, as B.C. Lapsade.

Death

09/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD

Notes

1 Pruett, Samuel, and Poffenberger & Good, Greg Farino and Western Maryland Regional Library (WMRL), Washington Confederate Cemetery, possible burials, Hagerstown (MD): WHILBR, 2010 [AotW citation 4799]

2 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 19524]

3 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 34009]

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