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(1841 - 1901)
Home State: Maine
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Maine Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 19 year old farmhand on the Levi Davis place at Athens, ME. He enlisted on 20 December 1861 and mustered as a a Private in Company F, 7th Maine Infantry on 23 January 1862. He was promoted to Corporal, date not given.
On the Campaign
He was slightly wounded in the ankle in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was discharged for disability on 12 February 1863.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer at Norman in Grundy County, IL.
References & notes
Casualty information from Hyde.1 His service from the Adjutant General2 and the Card File.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave, as William Henry Harrison Benson.
He married Emeline Esther James (1850-1926) in October 1869 and they had 6 children.
Birth
02/25/1841; Athens, ME
Death
07/29/1901; burial in Evergreen Cemetery, Morris, IL
1 Hyde, Thomas W., Casualties in the Seventh Maine Regiment in the Battle of Antietam, Lewiston Falls (Maine) Journal, 1862-10-02 [AotW citation 6651]
2 State of Maine, Adjutant General's Office, and John L. Hodsdon, AG, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine for the Year ending December 31, 1862, Augusta: Stevens and Sayward, Printers to the State, 1863, Appendix D, pg. 266 [AotW citation 29280]
3 State of Maine, Maine State Archives, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Card Index, 1861-1865, Augusta (ME): Department of the Secretary of State, c. 2000 [AotW citation 29281]