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Pvt Benjamin Brown Atwill

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Pvt Benjamin Brown Atwill

Birth
Virginia, USA
Death
18 Dec 1918 (aged 74)
Kinsale, Westmoreland County, Virginia, USA
Burial
Kinsale, Westmoreland County, Virginia, USA Add to Map
Plot
134
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C.S.A.,Company C,9th Virginia Cavalry,Jordan's Regiment.
Enlisted September 10,1862,wounded at Haw's Shop on May 28,1864.

Father of Fred,Kate,Frank,Lotty,Bessie and Joseph J.Atwill;mother of these children died.Remarried second wife Lillian on October 15,1896.
A farmer.

The 9th Cavalry Regiment was formed in January, 1862, using the 1st Battalion Virginia Cavalry as its nucleus. Its companies were from the counties of Stafford, Caroline, Westmoreland, Lancaster, Essex, Spotsylvania, Lunenburg, King William, King George, and Richmond.
It fought in the Seven Days' Battles, the conflicts at Gainesville, Second Manassas, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Dumfries, Rapidan Station, Brandy Station, Upperville, Hanover, Gettysburg, Williamsport, Funkstown, Culpeper Court House, Bristoe, Mine Run, The Wilderness, and Todd's Tavern. Later it skirmished around Richmond and Petersburg, then was active in the Appomattox operations.
C.S.A.,Company C,9th Virginia Cavalry,Jordan's Regiment.
Enlisted September 10,1862,wounded at Haw's Shop on May 28,1864.

Father of Fred,Kate,Frank,Lotty,Bessie and Joseph J.Atwill;mother of these children died.Remarried second wife Lillian on October 15,1896.
A farmer.

The 9th Cavalry Regiment was formed in January, 1862, using the 1st Battalion Virginia Cavalry as its nucleus. Its companies were from the counties of Stafford, Caroline, Westmoreland, Lancaster, Essex, Spotsylvania, Lunenburg, King William, King George, and Richmond.
It fought in the Seven Days' Battles, the conflicts at Gainesville, Second Manassas, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Dumfries, Rapidan Station, Brandy Station, Upperville, Hanover, Gettysburg, Williamsport, Funkstown, Culpeper Court House, Bristoe, Mine Run, The Wilderness, and Todd's Tavern. Later it skirmished around Richmond and Petersburg, then was active in the Appomattox operations.


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  • Maintained by: BigFrench
  • Originally Created by: PL
  • Added: Nov 22, 2002
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID:
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6945253/benjamin_brown-atwill: accessed ), memorial page for Pvt Benjamin Brown Atwill (22 Jul 1844–18 Dec 1918), Find a Grave Memorial ID 6945253, citing Yeocomico Episcopal Churchyard, Kinsale, Westmoreland County, Virginia, USA; Maintained by BigFrench (contributor 46554304).