Benjamin B. Kirkland was from the Buford's Bridge section of old Barnwell District.
on Sept. 5, 1861, he enlisted as 2nd Lieutenant in Co. I, Hagood's 1st South Carolina Infantry. He was elected captain of Company C of the 1st S.C. Infantry in April 1862. Frank M. Mixon, a member of the 1st South Carolina Infantry, writing many decades after the war in “Reminiscences of a Private,” recalled that Kirkland made his unit the crack company of the regiment.
Kirkland was promoted to major in February 1864. On March 19, 1864, he was promoted to Lt. Colonel. Kirkland was paroled at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Kirkland was wounded at the Battle of Second Manassas on Aug. 30, 1862.
Mixon wrote that Kirkland was a gallant soldier and had the respect and had the admiration of the whole regiment, both as a man and an officer.
He later married Margaret Dunbar of the Millette section of Barnwell County and they had a large family.
on Sept. 5, 1861, he enlisted as 2nd Lieutenant in Co. I, Hagood's 1st South Carolina Infantry. He was elected captain of Company C of the 1st S.C. Infantry in April 1862. Frank M. Mixon, a member of the 1st South Carolina Infantry, writing many decades after the war in “Reminiscences of a Private,” recalled that Kirkland made his unit the crack company of the regiment.
Kirkland was promoted to major in February 1864. On March 19, 1864, he was promoted to Lt. Colonel. Kirkland was paroled at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Kirkland was wounded at the Battle of Second Manassas on Aug. 30, 1862.
Mixon wrote that Kirkland was a gallant soldier and had the respect and had the admiration of the whole regiment, both as a man and an officer.
He later married Margaret Dunbar of the Millette section of Barnwell County and they had a large family.
Benjamin B. Kirkland was from the Buford's Bridge section of old Barnwell District.
on Sept. 5, 1861, he enlisted as 2nd Lieutenant in Co. I, Hagood's 1st South Carolina Infantry. He was elected captain of Company C of the 1st S.C. Infantry in April 1862. Frank M. Mixon, a member of the 1st South Carolina Infantry, writing many decades after the war in “Reminiscences of a Private,” recalled that Kirkland made his unit the crack company of the regiment.
Kirkland was promoted to major in February 1864. On March 19, 1864, he was promoted to Lt. Colonel. Kirkland was paroled at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Kirkland was wounded at the Battle of Second Manassas on Aug. 30, 1862.
Mixon wrote that Kirkland was a gallant soldier and had the respect and had the admiration of the whole regiment, both as a man and an officer.
He later married Margaret Dunbar of the Millette section of Barnwell County and they had a large family.
on Sept. 5, 1861, he enlisted as 2nd Lieutenant in Co. I, Hagood's 1st South Carolina Infantry. He was elected captain of Company C of the 1st S.C. Infantry in April 1862. Frank M. Mixon, a member of the 1st South Carolina Infantry, writing many decades after the war in “Reminiscences of a Private,” recalled that Kirkland made his unit the crack company of the regiment.
Kirkland was promoted to major in February 1864. On March 19, 1864, he was promoted to Lt. Colonel. Kirkland was paroled at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Kirkland was wounded at the Battle of Second Manassas on Aug. 30, 1862.
Mixon wrote that Kirkland was a gallant soldier and had the respect and had the admiration of the whole regiment, both as a man and an officer.
He later married Margaret Dunbar of the Millette section of Barnwell County and they had a large family.
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