| Name:
LANIER, BENJAMIN ALEXANDER |
| Rank:
Sergeant |
| Enlisted: 16
May 1861 |
| Service History:
Present at: Winchester 1862/05/25, Cross Keys 1862/06/08, Malvern Hill
1862/07/02, Hazel River 1862/08/23, Manassas Junction 1862/08/27,
Manassas Plains 1862/08/28-30, Chantilly 1862/09/01, Harpers Ferry
1862/09/13, Suffolk 1863/05/03, Gettysburg 1863/07/02-03, Battle Mount
1863/07/24, Chickamauga 1863/09/19-20, Wilderness 1864/05/06,
Spotsylvania 1864/05/08 & 12, Cold Harbor 1864/06/02, Chester
Station 1864/06/17, Deep Bottom 1864/08/14; Absent Sick: Cold Harbor
1862/06/27 through Fredericksburg 1862/12/13;Wounded: Raccoon Mt.
1863/10/27;Absent Wounded: Lookout Valley 1863/10/28 through Dandridge
1864/01/16;Severely Wounded: Fussell's Mill 1864/08/16; Absent Furlough:
Ft. Gilmer 1864/09/29; Ft. Harrison 1864/09/30; Darbytown Road
1864/10/13. Discharged 1865/04/09. |
| Date of Birth: 28
September 1833 |
Place of Birth:
Gatton County, Florida |
| Date of Death: 1
August 1915 |
Place of Death:
Dale County, Alabama |
| Buried:
Providence Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery, Clayhatchee, Dale County, Alabama |
| Father:
John Jefferson Lanier (b 2 March 1804, d 1847 in Early County, Georgia) |
| Mother:
Catherine Cameron (b 2 April 1810 in South Carolina, d 2 November 1892
in Randolph County, Georgia; daughter of Hugh Cameron) |
| Spouse(s):
(1) Melissa Crider, (2) Sarah Ann Thompson (b 11 January 1837, d 12
September 1883) |
| Children:
(1) Mark Anthony, Margaret (Mims), Rebecca; (2) Oscar, John Thomas,
Daniel, Catherine, Benjamin Franklin, Isaac Thompson, Victoria Irene (Redd,
Crider), William Mack, Cumy Mary (Toft) |
| Occupation:
Farmer |
| Residence(s):
Newton and Daleville, Dale County |
| Other:
Pension record card Dale County; Alabama pension number 11676 |
| Photographs:
Benjamin A. and Sarah A. Lanier, Providence Cemetery
|
| Submitter:
Georgia V. Fleming |
E-mail: hyacinth@ala.net |
