Name: Benjamin Franklin Weller
Birth Place: Augusta Co.
Date of Birth: 8/31/1840
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Date of Enlistment: 5/2/1861
Place of Enlistment: Waynesboro
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Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer
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Rank: Pvt.
Company: E
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Regiment: 1st Va. Cav.
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Transfers and Other Service:Detailed as courier for Gen. J.E.B. Stuart 11-62
Muster Sheet: Present until absent sick in Richmond Hosp. Returned to duty 12-13-61. Present until detailed as courier. Present 6-30-64. Present Appomattox C.H..
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Paroled: 4/28/1865
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Wounded in Action: Mine Run. Returned to duty.; Todd's Tavern, in the arm, 5-7-1864. Returned to duty. - 11/27/1863
Hospital: Richmond Hosp. 1-11-1861. Returned to duty 12-31-1861.
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Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney
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Postwar Life: Resident of Los Angeles, California in 1915. Alive in 1922.
obituary states he was a sharpshooter
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