Ben Gadsen

Title

Ben Gadsen

Aliases

Benjamin Gadson

Date

None listed

Description

Regiment: 1st South Carolina Colored infantry; 33d United States Colored Troops
Company: D
Rank: Private
Mustered-in date and place: November 1862 Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States
Mustered-out date and place: Not listed

Other locations listed during time of service: Coosaw Island, Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States; Beaufort, Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States; James Island, Charleston County, South Carolina, United States; Morris Island, Charleston County, South Carolina, United States; Coosaw Island, Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States; Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina, United States
Comrades mentioned: Luke Wright; Fred Brown; Stephen Morrell

Isaiah Brown

Name(s) of spouse(s): Matilda Chaplain
Children: Robert Gadson; Morris Gadson

Veteran's birth date and location: 1843 in Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States
Plantation(s): Not listed
Enslaver(s): William Elliott

Parents of veteran: Mary Wright
Other listed family members: Not listed

Wife's place of birth: Not listed
Wife's enslaver: Not listed
Wife's parents: Not listed
Wife's other family members: Not listed

Creator

Department of the Interior Bureau of Pensions

Publisher

National Archives and Records Administration

Type

Document

Format

Portable Document Format

Language

English

Coverage

United States of America

Rights

Public Domain | All records should be cited as coming from the Center Family History at the International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina, United States.