US Army Infantry School - Doughboy Yearbook (Fort Benning, GA)

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.19- . -e f 1 4 x Y N GENERAL HENRY L. BENNING DISTINGUISHED Confederate General Henry Lewis Benning, after whom Fort Benning was named, was born in Muscogee County, Georgia, near the city of Columbus, on April 2nd, 1814. At the age of 17 he entered the University of Georgia and graduated in law as the first mem- ber of a class which contained many men of note and distinction. He was admitted to the bar at Columbus and in 1837 was appointed Solici- , tor-General of the Chattahoochee Circuit, a sig- nal honor for a young man of his age. In 1838 he was married to Miss Mary Howard, daughter of Colonel Seaborn jones of Columbus. Shortly afterwards he resigned his position as Solicitor-General and resumed the practice of law in partnership with Colonel jones. He was made a justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia in 1853 and so served until 1859, becoming noted throughout the South. In 1860 he was elected to the Convention of Georgia, went as a corn- missioner to the Virginia Convention in 1861, and following the outbreak of the Civil War entered the Confederate Service as Colonel of the l7tb Georgia Regiment in August 1861. After commanding Toomb's Brigade of the Army of Virginia for several months, he was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General. Thereafter he frequently commanded Hood's Division of the First Corps. For his coolness and gallantry he won the soubriquet of 'Old Rockf He participated in the Battles of Second Manassas, Sharpsburg, Fred- ericksburg, Chickamauga, Wilderness, Thoroughfare Gap, Malvern-Hill, Lookout Valley, Fort Louden, Knoxville, Petersburg, Farmsville, and many minor engagements. He was slightly wounded at Chickamauga, and later was severely Wounded in the shoulder during the second day of the Battleibf the Wilderness. This wound troubled him during the remainder of his life. Following the close of the War, General Benning returned to Columbus and resumed the practice of law, continuing in this vocation until death called him after a brief illness on july 10th, 1875. He died an honored citizen, dis-

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