Sunday, August 12, 2012

Benjamin C. Hartsook, student 1860-1861

Hartsook enlisted in Co. D of the 19th VA Infantry as a private on April 19, 1861. He was hospitalized for "debility" at Chimborazo in Richmond, VA from April 13- April 29, 1862. He furnished a substitute, Daniel Bonham, on August 7, 1862 and was discharged. The substitute died of disease at Chimborazo in 1863.

After the war, Hartsook went into the insurance business in Richmond, VA. He died on July 30, 1898 and is buried in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, VA.

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