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Capt Benjamin Franklin Binkley Veteran

Birth: 3 May 1837
Tennessee, USA
Death: 17 Dec 1903 (aged 66)
Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA
Burial: Mount Olivet Cemetery

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Memorial ID: 22492489 View Source

Benjamin Binkley enlisted in July, 1861, in the Twenty Second Tennessee Infantry, and on May 8, 1862, he was promoted to First Lieutenant. On June 17, 1862, the Twelth and Twenty Second Tennessee Regiments consolidated, at which time he was promoted to Captain and placed in command of the "Hatchie Hunters" and "Harris Guards." The company engaged in the battles of Belmont, Corinth, Richmond and Perryville, in Kentucky; of Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, and Missionary Ridge, in Tennessee, and in nearly every engagement between the latter point and Atlanta, under Gen. Joe Johnston, and subsequently with General Hood at Jonesboro, GA., at Franklin, TN, and Bentonville, NC.He was also Head of the Nashville Title Company, recording steward of Elm Street Methodist Church for 26 years

Benjamin Binkley enlisted in July, 1861, in the Twenty Second Tennessee Infantry, and on May 8, 1862, he was promoted to First Lieutenant. On June 17, 1862, the Twelth and Twenty Second Tennessee Regiments consolidated, at which time he was promoted to Captain and placed in command of the "Hatchie Hunters" and "Harris Guards." The company engaged in the battles of Belmont, Corinth, Richmond and Perryville, in Kentucky; of Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, and Missionary Ridge, in Tennessee, and in nearly every engagement between the latter point and Atlanta, under Gen. Joe Johnston, and subsequently with General Hood at Jonesboro, GA., at Franklin, TN, and Bentonville, NC.He was also Head of the Nashville Title Company, recording steward of Elm Street Methodist Church for 26 years

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Mary Matilda Markham Binkley

1844–1886 (m. 1866)

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Elizabeth Binkley Clark

1862–1879

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Maintained by: Theresa/Thunderbird
Originally Created by: Graveaddiction
Added: Oct 27, 2007
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Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22492489/benjamin_franklin-binkley: accessed ), memorial page for Capt Benjamin Franklin Binkley (3 May 1837–17 Dec 1903), Find a Grave Memorial ID 22492489, citing Mount Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA; Maintained by Theresa/Thunderbird (contributor 47100429).

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