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Bennett, John Wesley

MILITARY SERVICE

Age: 25, credited to Newbury, VT
Unit(s): 1st VT CAV
Service: comn 1LT, Co. D, 1st VT CAV, 10/15/61 (11/1/61), pr CPT, Co. D, 10/30/62 (11/8/62), pr MAJ, 6/1/63 (6/5/63), pr LTC, 6/4/64 (6/20/64), wdd, Wilderness, 5/5/64), m/o 11/18/64

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VITALS

Birth: 01/31/1837, Westmoreland, NH
Death: 06/21/1920

Burial: Forest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, IL
Marker/Plot: Not recorded
Gravestone researcher/photographer:
Findagrave Memorial #: 0
(There may be a Findagrave Memorial, but we have not recorded it)

MORE INFORMATION

Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes, 3/13/1899, IL
Portrait?: VHS Collections, MOLLUS, Guber Collection off-site
College?: Not Found
Veterans Home?: Not Found
(If there are state digraphs above, this soldier spent some time in a state or national soldiers' home in that state after the war)

Remarks: Died in Northfield, MA, body shipped to Ill. for burial

DESCENDANTS

Great Grandfather of Erik Bennett, Wayne, NJ

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BURIAL:

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Tombstone

Tombstone

Forest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, IL

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Photo Photo

VHS (Johnston Cavalry Collection)

Photo

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