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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Benjamin F. Manry

(c. 1844 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 51st Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 18, he mustered as Private, Company E, 51st Georgia Infantry on 22 March 1862.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was originally buried "in the common near the Academy in Middletown." Probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References & notes

Burial information from Pruett,1 who has him as B.F. Manny. Service from the Roster 2 via the Historical Data Systems database.

Birth

c. 1844

Death

09/14/1862; Fox's Gap, 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 4826]

2 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 19651]

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