1859 GREAT BARRINGTON MA INVERTED ! STAMP UNCHECKED N. EGREMONT KILLED CIVIL WAR

Description: INVERTED DATE CANCEL, SENT TO Nathan Orson Benjamin was born September 15, 1830 in South Egremont, Massachusetts. Prior to volunteering to serve in the Civil War, he served the Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters [Cryptic Masons] as the Most Puissant Grand Master of the Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters [Cryptic Masons] of the State of New York. Nathan Orson Benjamin enlisted from New York City as a 1st Lieutenant in Company D, 131st New York in August 1862 and was mortally wounded on June 14, 1863 during the dawn assault on Port Hudson.A letter written the next day by comrade and fellow officer Lieutenant Norman Murray to Nathan's wife, Mary Benjamin (1834- June 16, 1882), recounts his last hours: "...Lieut. Benjamin was mortally wounded on Sunday the 14th June while at the head of his company which was engaged in a charge upon the enemies works before this place. Lieut. B. was carefully removed from the field by tender hands and placed under the care of his friends Dr. Robinson and Provost when everything in their power was done by these two skillful Gentlemen but of no avail. He died at 5am this morning without pain not being conscious from the moment he was struck until that of his death." Lieutenant Murray added that Benjamin's "personal effects have been placed in my hands for safe keeping" and finished by enclosing a "lock of hair taken just before Lieut. Benjamin was buried." Lt. Benjamin was initially buried on the field but was later removed to the family plot at South Egremont Village Cemetery in Egremont, Massachusetts. A number of artful contemporary photographs of Benjamin's gravesite taken by a local researcher in the 1980s. National Archives military and pension records relating to Mary Benjamin claim and extensive Benjamin/Upson family genealogy going back several generations together with pertinent photocopied information from the O.R.'s, a related regimental history, and other published sources in reference to the June 14, 1863 attack on Port Hudson. The 131st New York, also known as the "1st Regiment Metropolitan Guard," was another unit partially raised from contingents of New York City firemen. It mustered in September 1862 and served briefly at Annapolis, Maryland before joining the Department of the Gulf assigned to Grover's Division, part of the Baton Rouge garrison. The 131st was bloodied in western Louisiana operations including the Tech campaign and engagement at Irish Bend before joining the creeping siege lines at Port Hudson in May. With Lt. Benjamin present, the New Yorker's participated in Maj. Gen. Nathaniel Banks' first unsuccessful assault on May 25, followed by the costly attack of June 14 that claimed nearly 1,800 Union casualties. ------------ SEE PHOTOS !!! NO RESERVE, SHIPPING AND HANDLING IS $2.00 IN USA, OR $4.00 FOREIGN. I COMBINE SHIPPING COSTS ON MULTIPLE ITEM TO SAVE YOU MONEY.

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