Person:James Benson (21)

Civil War Service

Source: ^S1

• Corporal, Company A, 1st Ohio Heavy Artillery
• Mustered in 9 June 1863
• Mustered out 17 May 1865 at Knoxville, Tennessee

Pension

Source: ^S2

• None listed on Civil War and Later Veterans Pension Index card
• Widow's Pension: Application 435175, Certificate 374342

1. ↑ Foraker, J.B; H.A. Axline; and J.S. Robinson. Official roster of the soldiers of the state of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866. (Akron [Ohio]: Werner Co., 1886-1895).
2.   United States. Veterans Administration. Organization index to pension files of veterans who served between 1861 and 1900- [1917]. (Washington, District of Columbia: The National Archives, 1949).
3. ↑ United States. Army. Quartermaster General's Office. Card records of headstones provided for deceased Union Civil war veterans, ca. 1879-ca. 1903. (Washington, District of Columbia).
4.   Date of death based upon widow's pension application filed 12 July 1890.