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Benson C (Veteran CSA) BOLTON

Mt Pleasant (Columbia) Cemetery
Caldwell County,
Louisiana

PRIVATE CSA
Company F 11 Regiment Texas Infantry
Civil War Confederate
August 10, 1833 - May 11, 1914

He was born in Lawrence County, Mississippi
Husband of S E Bolton

He enlisted on February 17, 1862, in Hemphill, Texas. On June 24, 1862, he was detailed to return to Sabine County, Texas to procure ammunition and report back for duty on July 14, 1862. The Company Muster Roll for July - August 1862 listed him as present / sick. His name appeared on a Roll of Prisoners of War after Confederate forces surrendered in New Orleans, Louisiana on May 26, 1865. He was paroled in Natchitoches, Louisiana on June 10, 1865.

Confederate Pension Application Index Database, Reel CP1.13 ~ Microdex 1 ~ Sequences 26 & 31
Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, The National Archives, Publication M323, Roll 0344

Contributed on 8/31/23 by bridges1026
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Submitted: 8/31/23 • Approved: 8/31/23 • Last Updated: 9/3/23 • R443790-G0-S3

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