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Benjamin Singleton (Marshall County, Indiana, farmer and soldier)

b. 1838? d. 1862-12-16

Marshall County, Indiana, farmer and soldier. Indiana native. Married to Dovey Elizabeth Singleton on September 13, 1859. Father of Francis L. Singleton and Niles A. Singleton. Farm laborer in Marshall County, Indiana, in 1860. Private in the 73rd Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment from August 1862 to December 1862. Died of disease at Nashville, Tennessee, on December 17, 1862.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Marshall County, p. 477; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Marshall County, Polk, p. 10; Organization Index to Pension Files of Veterans who served between 1861 and 1900, Civil War Pensions Index, Ancestry; U.S. National Cemetery Interment Control Forms, 1928-1962, Ancestry, Nashville, Tennessee National Cemetery, 1862; Case Files of Approved Pension Applications of Widows and Other Dependents of Civil War Veterans, ca. 1861 - ca. 1910, NARA RG 15, NARA Catalog ID 300020, Roll WC134434-WC134466; Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, vol. VI (Indianapolis: samuel M. Douglass, State Printer, 1866), 191.

Citation

Singleton, Benjamin. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32213214 (November 12, 2026).

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