Husband of Mary L. Gold. Son of Daniel Pleasant Gold & Margaret M. Jenkins Gold.
He served as a private, Co. I, 38 North Carolina Infantry Regiment from November 1861 until December 1862, when it was learned that he had lied about his age. (He was 16 rather than 18 as he had stated.) He served again from January 1864 until April 1865 in Company C, Freeman's Battalion (Salisbury Confederate Military Prison), Salisbury, NC, rising to the rank of corporal. When the prison closed in February 1865, he was attached to Co. C, 68th NC Infantry Regiment.
Benjamin Gold would serve in elected office, first in the South Carolina General Assembly from 1889-1891 and later as a Magistrate Judge in Cherokee County. He died while visiting his brother in Collinsville, TX, having attended a General Confederate Veterans Reunion earlier in May in Dallas.
Husband of Mary L. Gold. Son of Daniel Pleasant Gold & Margaret M. Jenkins Gold.
He served as a private, Co. I, 38 North Carolina Infantry Regiment from November 1861 until December 1862, when it was learned that he had lied about his age. (He was 16 rather than 18 as he had stated.) He served again from January 1864 until April 1865 in Company C, Freeman's Battalion (Salisbury Confederate Military Prison), Salisbury, NC, rising to the rank of corporal. When the prison closed in February 1865, he was attached to Co. C, 68th NC Infantry Regiment.
Benjamin Gold would serve in elected office, first in the South Carolina General Assembly from 1889-1891 and later as a Magistrate Judge in Cherokee County. He died while visiting his brother in Collinsville, TX, having attended a General Confederate Veterans Reunion earlier in May in Dallas.
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