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Name: Benjamin Franklin Houff
Birth Place: Virginia
Date of Birth: 8/31/1840
Physical Description:
Prewar Life:
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Date of Enlistment: 4/17/1861
Place of Enlistment: Staunton
Age at Enlistment:
Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer
Conscript or Substitute:
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Rank: Pvt.
Company: C
Transfer Company:
Regiment: 5th Va. Inf.
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Promotions: To Sgt. 08-00-1863
Transfers and Other Service:
Muster Sheet: Returned 04-00-1863 after being wounded at Kernstown
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Missing In Action:
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Discharge:
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Died of Disease:
Killed in Action:
Wounded in Action: Kernstown - 3/23/1862
Hospital:
Died of Wounds:
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Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney
Family Number from 1860 census: (Click on number to see the 1860 census record)
Dwelling Number from 1860 census: (Click on number to see the 1860 census record)
Postwar Life: 1870 Census, Farmer, age 34, 2nd District, Augusta Co. Membership application for Stonewall Jackson Camp No. 25 C. V. Staunton 01-14-08 at age 72; farmer in Middle River District Augusta Co. at age 74 in 1910
obituary states he was a sharpshooter
Death Place:
Date of Death: //1920
Cause of Death:
Burial Place: Family Cem., on Rt. 626, Augusta Co.
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