Notes for>Benjamin Franklin Clarkson:
County: Upshur
Unit: 133 Mil.
Last Name: Clarkson
First Name: Benj.
Middle Name or Initial: F.
Rank: Private
Company: Capt. D Gould "C" Co.
Age: 35
Roll Dated: Sept. 16/63
When Enrolled: Aug 19 1862
Where Enrolled: Buckhannon, W. Va
Length of Service:
Mustered In: Sept. 16/62
Mustered Out: do
Remarks: Served in all 23 days actually under arms Captured at Centreville, W Va Sept. 12 -'63 Died Mch. 30 -'64
Record from West Virginia Archives
This company of 70 men was captured at Centerville, Sept 12, 1863, and taken to Richmond, VA where they were imprisoned. Seven of them escaped, twenty-five were parolled, and the rest died at Richmond, Camp Sumpter, Wheeling, Salibury and Charleston, SC, leaving behind them 27 widows and 83 children. from Upshur County in the Civil War (The History of Upshur Co WB by W B Cutright)

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