Benjamin King Pullen

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1821-11-09

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1900-07-15

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"Benjamin King Pullen" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00015436, (accessed November 5, 2024).

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Richmond, Virginia, and Memphis Tennessee, merchant and commissary agent. North Carolina native. Married to Minerva Pullen. Father of Leslie Pullen, Minerva Pullen, Fannie Pullen, and Lucy Pullen. Merchant for Charles Stebbins in Richmond, Virginia, in 1850. Merchant with W. A. Meir in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1860. Employed Edwin Stebbins, A. H. Rowe, and John T. Scarbrook as salesmen in Memphis in 1860. Merchant in Richmond, Virginia, in 1860. Served in the Memphis Battery Tennessee Volunteers (C.S.A.) as a second lieutenant from March 12, 1862 to June 1, 1862. Served in the 2nd Mississippi Calvary Regiment (C.S.A.) as a captain to April 3, 1863. Served in the Confederate Army (C.S.A.) as chief clerk and commissary agent at Grenada, Mississippi from October 1, 1863 to 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Virginia, Richmond County, Richmond (Independent City), p. 344A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Tennessee, Shelby County, Memphis Ward 4, p. 104.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Virginia, Henrico County, Richmond, p. 428.
Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Tennessee, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0129.
Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Tennessee, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0827.
"Benjamin King Pullen (1821-1900)," Find A Grave, Memorial #103458960, accessed August 24, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/103458960.

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