Soldier:  Jonathon Benedict

Regiment:  3^rd. OVI                   

Company:  I

Age:  20                       

Date Entering Service:  April 25, 1861

Period of Service:  3 years

Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):

Killed on December 31, 1862, at the battle of Stones River, Tennessee

Battles in which he fought:

Middle Creek Fork, WVa.                                   July 6, 1861

Rich Mountain, WVa.                                         July 11, 1861

Elkwater, W.Va.                                     Sept. 11, 1861

Bridgeport, Al.                                                   April 29, 1862

Perryville, Ky.                                                     Oct. 8, 1862

Stone River, Tenn.                                             Dec. 31, 1862

Other interesting information discovered:

Jonathon Benedict was an older brother of Charles W. Benedict

Date of Death:  Dec. 31, 1862             

Place of burial:  Stones River National Cemetery, Murfreesboro, Tenn.

Researcher:  Patrick Drouhard