Benjamin Irby Scott, Class of 1860

Benjamin Irby Scott was a schoolteacher residing in Athens, TN, when he enlisted on May 29, 1861 in Co. G of the 18th VA infantry. On April 20, 1862, he was promoted to corporal. He was wounded June 27, 1862 at Gaines' Mill, Va, and then killed and left on the field on September 14, 1862 near Boonsboro, MD, at the Battle of South Mountain. Captain Richard Irby, class of 1844, refers to Scott as "one of the best men in the Regiment" in his regimental history published in 1878, Historical Sketch of the Nottoway Grays: Afterwards Company G, Eighteenth Virginia Regiment, Army of Northern Virginia.