Private Benedict Hood, soldier in the 72nd Regiment N.C. Troops / 3rd Junior Reserves, 8th Battalion, Company C, . These were teenaged boys that were used for defense of the State. Hood was about 16 years old when he joined the Confederate army at Camp Vance, near Morganton, NC in June of 1864.
Hood fought a battle at Belfield/Hick's Run, VA on December 9th, 1864 turning back a Federal raiding force. Trained back into North Carolina to participate in the defense of Fort Fisher, he was captured near the beach between Fisher and Sugar Loaf on Christmas Day, 1864. He and nearly 250 of his fellow Juniors were transported to Point Lookout Prison Pen in Maryland. After several months of confinement, he died of scurvy on April 24th, 1865. He is buried in the mass grave at Point Lookout. His name "Hood, B. B. C 3 N. C. Jr. Res." is on the memorial marker.
Many thanks to Rosetta Neeson for the kind act of sponsoring this memorial.
Hood fought a battle at Belfield/Hick's Run, VA on December 9th, 1864 turning back a Federal raiding force. Trained back into North Carolina to participate in the defense of Fort Fisher, he was captured near the beach between Fisher and Sugar Loaf on Christmas Day, 1864. He and nearly 250 of his fellow Juniors were transported to Point Lookout Prison Pen in Maryland. After several months of confinement, he died of scurvy on April 24th, 1865. He is buried in the mass grave at Point Lookout. His name "Hood, B. B. C 3 N. C. Jr. Res." is on the memorial marker.
Many thanks to Rosetta Neeson for the kind act of sponsoring this memorial.
Private Benedict Hood, soldier in the 72nd Regiment N.C. Troops / 3rd Junior Reserves, 8th Battalion, Company C, . These were teenaged boys that were used for defense of the State. Hood was about 16 years old when he joined the Confederate army at Camp Vance, near Morganton, NC in June of 1864.
Hood fought a battle at Belfield/Hick's Run, VA on December 9th, 1864 turning back a Federal raiding force. Trained back into North Carolina to participate in the defense of Fort Fisher, he was captured near the beach between Fisher and Sugar Loaf on Christmas Day, 1864. He and nearly 250 of his fellow Juniors were transported to Point Lookout Prison Pen in Maryland. After several months of confinement, he died of scurvy on April 24th, 1865. He is buried in the mass grave at Point Lookout. His name "Hood, B. B. C 3 N. C. Jr. Res." is on the memorial marker.
Many thanks to Rosetta Neeson for the kind act of sponsoring this memorial.
Hood fought a battle at Belfield/Hick's Run, VA on December 9th, 1864 turning back a Federal raiding force. Trained back into North Carolina to participate in the defense of Fort Fisher, he was captured near the beach between Fisher and Sugar Loaf on Christmas Day, 1864. He and nearly 250 of his fellow Juniors were transported to Point Lookout Prison Pen in Maryland. After several months of confinement, he died of scurvy on April 24th, 1865. He is buried in the mass grave at Point Lookout. His name "Hood, B. B. C 3 N. C. Jr. Res." is on the memorial marker.
Many thanks to Rosetta Neeson for the kind act of sponsoring this memorial.
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Co. C, 3 N. C. Jr. Res.
