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Benjamin C.R. Reed: Captain, United States Army, Company E, 3rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer
Infantry. Enlisted as a Sergeant on April 24, 1861; was promoted to 2nd
Lieutenant August 23, 1861; 1st Lieutenant on December 21, 1861; Captain on
October 2, 1862. He was wounded
October 8, 1862, at Chaplin Hills, KY. He was captured
on May 3, 1863, outside of Rome, Georgia, and was confined on May 10, 1863, to the prison at
Salisbury, North Carolina. He escaped from prison on March 25, 1864, and
was recaptured on April 12, 1864, in Wilkes County, North Carolina. The
date of his discharge from Salisbury is not known. He
reenlisted on September 21, 1864, as a Major in the 174th Ohio Infantry.
He was killed on December
7, 1864, at Cedars, Tennessee. |