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Benjamin Franklin Cheatham (Davidson County, Tennessee, farmer and Confederate general)

b. 1820-10-20 d. 1886-09-04

Davidson County, Tennessee, farmer and Confederate general. Nashville, Tennessee, native. Son of Leonard Pope Cheatham and Elizabeth Friar Cheatham. Captain in the 1st Tennessee Infantry in the Mexican-American War. Promoted to colonel of the 3rd Tennessee Infantry. Resident of Nashville, Tennessee, in 1850. Relocated to California from 1850 to 1853. Major general of the Tennessee State Militia. Farmer in Davidson County, in 1860. Brigadier general in the Army of Tennessee of the Confederate Army from July 1861 to March 1862. Promoted to major general on March 10, 1862 and served until the end of the war.

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Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Tennessee, Davidson County, Nashville, p. 157B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Tennessee, Davidson County, District No. 13, p. 126. Ezra J. Warner, Jr., Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008), 47-48. Christopher Losson, Tennessee's Forgotten Warriors: Frank Cheatham and His Confederate Division (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1989).

Citation

Cheatham, Benjamin Franklin. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32203228 (November 12, 2026).

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