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Civil War Marker Picture (Laying on the ground in front of the original headstone)

Benjamin Stearns
Co C
12 Ill Cav
1837
Jan 15, 1864
Twenty-five year-old
Benjamin Stearns enlisted
as a blacksmith in Captain
Stephen Bronson's Company
(company C) of the twelfth
Illinois Cavalry Regiment
on December 20, 1861. In
September 1862 he was
captured at Harper's Ferry,
Virginia and subsequently
exchanged. He became ill,
and on October 7, 1863 was
transferred to Company E,
Veteran Reserve Corps.
He died at Winfield Illinois
on January 14, 1864

Status: Located

Pleasant Hill Cemetery, DuPage County, Illinois, US

Notes: Also known as Fairview Debating Society or Geneva Road.

Cemetery Photos

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1		Sign Picture MILTON TOWNSHIP CEMETERY GIDEON WARNER MASSACHUSETTS NATIVE. ENLISTED APRIL 20, 1778 AND SERVED FOR A YEAR AS A PRIVATE IN CAPTIAN POMEROY'S COMPANY IN THE NEW YORK STATE AREA. HE IS THE ONLY VETERAN OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR BURIED HERE IN 1843.

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