Benjamin C. White - What Happened to Him?

I have had several people ask if Benjamin made it home after the war. All that I know is that he was b. 1843 in Tennessee, married Sarah Elizabeth Mills, served in the Civil War. Then in 1868 Elizabeth Mills White married her second husband. So Benjamin either died in the Civil War and never returned or returned home and died by 1868.




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THE BOMBARDMENT OF FREDERICKSBURG December 11, 1862 by Rufus F. Zogbaum, 1886. Engraving by J. W. Evans.

Benjamin C. White taken Prisoner!

Here is another letter to Elizabeth White dated 1864.

Memphis, Tennessee
1,1864, September


Mrs. White:

It is on account of the absence of your husband that I seat myself to write you a few lines to inform you this cause of absence. He was taken prisoner by the enemy the 24th of August as we was coming back to this place. He was taken about thirty-five miles from here. The cause that I take the privilege of writing you is that he left his things with me and I have them yet, and I will try to keep them till he returns, or till I am discharged if I can. He was well the morning that he was taken prisoner. He left to hunt watermelons I suppose, and was taken. Him and fore more men of the second brigade. There was several more of the third division taken the same day. Now I have given you all that I no about that. Now, there was a letter came for him yesterday, and we broke it to see how to fine your name so I could write to you, it was dated August the 17th, 1864. Now I will close.


Respectively Yours,
Pettit G.W.D.
Elizabeth White.

Civil War Letter home from Benjamin C. White

Here is a letter that Benjamin C. White, Confederate, wrote home to his wife Sarah Elizabeth Mills White dated 1863. Sarah Elizabeth Mills was a distant cousin of mine.

August the 10, 1863, dier wife it ise with best kinds and rarest of plesier to here from you once more in the land of the living, thus to relpy, I reseaved a letter from you yisterday that give me graite satisfaction to here from you, and to hear that you was all well. That is all the satisfackion that ise, ise hering from home ande from my kin. Be contented for the time will soon come when I will be at home with you all. I long to see the time come as bad as you dwo I no. Tho we se every time now we half to stande garde once in about a week, and wirk one day in a week, and wirk one day in a week, that is not much. When we march we ride on the pontoon wagons all the time we dont carry enny thing, only our selvs, some times we donte haft to la down the bridge in 2 months, an then maby we will la it down three or fore times in a month. The boys ise all in tolerable helth, some of them have dierree since we have come here to this place, it ise mity bad water here. I dont think that we will stay here verry long. We have jest come here to repair up our bridge, then we will starte on the march, but dont know whar two, but it is some wheir in dixy, I guess some place to find the rebels, no odds on whar. That ma by that ise what we enlisted for, was to kill rebels, wheir ever we finde them. Lisabeth, I will explain to you the reson why I donte come home, it is a verry good reson, one is tha donte give a regular furlow these times and when a man ise gone home his time ise stoped till he reterns to his company, a goin on that would not soot this chickin at all, ande another reson if I was to come home before my time out I would spende twice the money that I would if I wast to wate till mi time was out ande you would hate to see me starte back again, and then I woulde hate to come back ande leave you all not nowing whether I would get back to the company or not with out being bush whacked or not thats the greatest reson, and so I will make one trip do all and have plenty of company home, it will seem a long time but it well soon role over. I no you had rather I would sta out a little longer than for me to starte home and get kilde on the rode ande never get to see me at all, I no. Donte be un easy about me, for I think I will come out safe if I keep me helth ande luck, well jest go on as if thair was no body gone. Study not for me, I hante no boddy much no how. Tell all of the big boys that I am as devlish as ever I was. Tell them that it is no fun to fite, the bullits whistles two keen, I tell you that it makes fellows flest croll to get in clost quarters that I have bin in, from ten to twenty feet is the closest that I hve bin, ande I think that ise verry clost, closter than ever I want to be again if I can help it. Tell Will and Bob and John and John Cofer that tha neede not want to be a soldier for it is a harde life to serve, although is ise a life that some boddy hast to serve on an I jest consider it as much one mans bisnis as another. It soots me very well. Tell William (?) to not join the army at all, tell all of the kin howdy for me. Tell Will and Bob and John to have a big water millon for me. The next of order pool my time off after this. Tell Sis to not spark the bois two. Her and Carline ande Mary, Sary and Margrit Cofer and Mary Cofer, and all the little one’s arounde. I belive that ise all for this time, so rite soon. I remain your’s until deth.

B.C. White to
Elisabeth White


YOU CAN READ MORE LETTERS LIKE THESE IN THE CIVIL WAR TIMES:

HELP SAVE OUR BATTLEFIELDS! NOW!

On my previous post-dated May 20th, I told you about a Civil War battlefield that has been put on our Nation’s 25 Most-Endangered List by the Civil War Preservation Trust.

After I had posted this announcement I received a reply from Ann Brownlee, President of the Trading Ford Historic District Preservation Association asking me to help by getting the word out. So this is what I’m doing.

PLEASE! PLEASE! All you Civil War Historians and you all that love our country; do you want to see our ancestors sacred land that they fought and died for go up in machinery smoke, car fuel and oil? I DON’T!

PLEASE, go to this site and Sign the Petition:
http://www.trading-ford.org/petition.html

You can also visit this site Stoneman’s Raid: Salisbury and the Yadkin River Bridge to read about the battle. At the top of this page you will see a link called “What can you do” this will also give you more information.

Let’s don’t loose our Countries History and your Ancestors that fought for it!

Owner disputes Civil War battle took place on his land

At Citizens-Time.com I found this article that makes me upset. To me this man has no respect for American History. The race track he wants to build can be moved somewhere else. Please read this article, This just proves how we are loosing our Civil War Battle fields to modern development!

"The Civil War Preservation Trust has placed a patch of land north of Charlotte on its list of the nation's 25 most-endangered Civil War battlefields, but the land owner said no written evidence supports the claim and he plans to build a racetrack there.

Dave Risdon wants to build a 2.15-mile race track on the land for amateur drivers of sports cars and motorcycles.

ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW:


Ann Brownlee said evidence of the battle exists, including cannonballs and other artifacts found at the site, and an eyewitness account of a Union cavalryman being shot off his horse."

To read the article in its entirety click here.

Civil War Screen Savers for Free

While I was searching the Internet, looking for some new screen savers, I came across this site that you might want to check out. It's called Padtube and they offer free Civil War screen savers.

Each Civil War image can be set as desktop wallpaper and the utility will cycle your wallpaper every day or every hour. The Civil War screen saver is powered by a first-rate screen saver engine that lets you set the duration between images, see images full-screen or at original size.


I really like this one that I can control. I'm glad I found this. I get tired of the same things over and over again. Oh, they do have some other offers you might be interested in.

Found Exciting News / Abraham Lincoln & the Civil War

I'm back and my daughter is doing well. The majority of the pain is gone and so is the swelling for the most part. Now her knee mainly hurts when she's doing her therapy. It's going to be a long road but she'll be playing soccer again next spring.

I did get sometime to work on the computer the other day and found some interesting and exciting information from Top News & Entertainment.

It seems that Steven Spielberg is planning to make a film about Abraham Lincoln our 16th U. S. President, and the Civil War. He stated that the filming may start early next year and Liam Neeson has agreed to play the part of Abraham Lincoln.

This will be something to look forward to. If I hear or read of an update in the future I'll let everyone know.

I'll Be Back Soon!

Just wanted to let everyone know that I haven’t forgot all you good people that have subscribed and even you new readers that visit my blog. I haven’t let things go and will be back soon! My daughter tore her ACL at her high school soccer game. She had surgery last Thursday and is doing fine except for the pain and swelling. There’s lots of therapy starting so I won’t be posting as often. As things slow down I will be back with lots of new information.

Thank again, Tammy