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Benjamin Watkins

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Benjamin Watkins

Birth
Bourbon County, Kentucky, USA
Death
20 May 1864 (aged 22–23)
Missouri, USA
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From GUERRILLA WARFARE in the CIVIL WAR MISSOURI by Bruce Nichols. Vol. 3, pg. 133, 134
"During the evening of May 19, 1864 a Union patrol in east Lafayette County wounded a guerrilla (Bushwhacker) and saw him suffer a bad fall from his horse while they were chasing him.
During the the evening of May 20th the local Union command sent 2nd Lt. James E. Teal and a patrol of the 1st Missouri
State Militia to find this man.
Teal's patrol found and executed on the spot, badly wounded, 22 year old, northesat Cass County blacksmith, Benjamin Watkins."
From GUERRILLA WARFARE in the CIVIL WAR MISSOURI by Bruce Nichols. Vol. 3, pg. 133, 134
"During the evening of May 19, 1864 a Union patrol in east Lafayette County wounded a guerrilla (Bushwhacker) and saw him suffer a bad fall from his horse while they were chasing him.
During the the evening of May 20th the local Union command sent 2nd Lt. James E. Teal and a patrol of the 1st Missouri
State Militia to find this man.
Teal's patrol found and executed on the spot, badly wounded, 22 year old, northesat Cass County blacksmith, Benjamin Watkins."

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