Benjamin F. Fitzgerald, student 1840-1841

Fitzgerald served as a private in Mathew's Battalion of the Mississippi State Troops, a cavalry unit. He was captured in Panola County, MS, where he had moved prior to 1850 and been a farmer. He was paroled in Oxford, MS on December 23, 1862, after signing a pledge to not take up arms again. Fitzgerald violated the parole by enlisting in Co. K of the 2nd Mississippi Partisan Rangers Cavalry on October 6, 1863 as a private, joining his brother Edward W. Fitzgerald who had enlisted on July 31, 1862. He died in 1864.