Benjamin Franklin Carpenter (1844 - 1911)

Born Jun 1844 in Gaston, North Carolina, United States

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Died 19 Oct 1911 at age 67 in Stanley, Gaston, North Carolina, United States

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Biography

Ben was born in 1844. ^[1] He married Frances Mason and they had, at least, eight children. Benjamin died in 1911. ^[2]

Occupation: Civil War - Sargent.

Note: -Sergent Co. E, 34th Co., NC. Discharged at Appomattox 04101865 with Lee. 2 BATTLE UNIT NAME:34th Regiment, North Carolina Infantry. SIDE:Confederacy COMPANY:E SOLDIER'S RANK IN:Private. SOLDIER'S RANK OUT:Corporal. ALTERNATE NAME:B.F./Carpenter. FILM NUMBER:M230 ROLL 6. PLAQUE NUMBER: NOTES: General Note - Original filed under B.F./Carpenter. 2 34th Regiment, North Carolina Infantry. OVERVIEW: 34th Infantry Regiment was assembled at High Point, North Carolina, in October, 1861. Its members were recruited in the counties of Ashe, Rutherford, Rowan, Lincoln, Cleveland, Mecklenburg, and Montgomery. After serving in the Department of North Carolina, it was sent to Virginia and placed in General Pender's and Scales' Brigade. The 34th was active in the many campaigns of the army from the Seven Days' Battles to Cold Harbor and later participated in the Petersburg siege south of the James River and the operations around Appomattox. It reported 53 killed and 158 wounded during the Seven Days' Battles, 2 killed and 23 wounded at Second Manassas, 2 killed and 17 wounded at Fredericksburg, and 18 killed, and 110 wounded, and 20 missing at Chancellorsville. Of the 310 engaged at Gettysburg, twenty-one percent were disabled. It surrendered 21 officers and 145 men. The field officers were Colonels Collet Leventhorpe, William Lee J. Lowrance, and Richard H. Riddick; Lieutenant Colonels George T. Gordon, Charles J. Hammerskold, William A. Houck, John L. McDowell, and George M. Norment; and Majors George M. Clark, Joseph B. McGee, Eli H. Miller, William A. Owens, Martin Shoffner, and Francis L. Twitty.

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1. ↑ Birth date taken from death record.
2. ↑ Find A Grave Index: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVLY-ZZNC

• United States Census, 1870: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MWZ1-MKQ
• United States Census, 1880: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MC6R-14M
• United States Census, 1890: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V6P6-XB1
• United States Census, 1900: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSYF-8VT
• United States Census, 1910: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:ML9B-3JN