Benjamin Kesterson

BRANCH OF SERVICE
Union Army

RANK
Private

HOMETOWN
Columbia,Dubois County, IN

HONORED BY
Charlie Treadway


Enlisted on 19 November 1861 at Jeffersonville, Indiana. Assigned to the 49th Indiana Infantry Company G.Left Indiana for Bardstown, Kentucky on 11 December 1861. Left there on 12 January 1862 for Cumberland Ford, Kentucky. Was in skirmishes at Big Tree and Cumberland Gap March 1862. Died on 3 April 1862 of Paralysis.