CHEATHAM, Benjamin Franklin

Confederate

Born: October 20 1820, Nashville TN

Died: September 4 1886, Nashville TN

Pre-War Profession: Farmer, Mexican War, Maj. Gen. in Tennessee state militia, gold miner.

War Service: 1861 Brig. Gen. then Maj. Gen. in Provisional Army of Tennessee, July 1861 Brig. Gen. in Confederate Army, Belmont, March 1862 Maj. Gen., commanded 1st Divn/Polk's Corps at Shiloh, Perryville, Murfreesboro, commanded Cheatham's Divn/Polk's Corps at Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, commanded Cheatham's Divn/Hardee's Corps in Atlanta campaign, Kennesaw Mountain, Atlanta, Nashville, Carolinas campaign.

Post War: Superintendent of prisons, postmaster