His pay ceased on the 8th. of October 1862, the date of the Battle of Perryville. His father, George J. Ward, filed a claim for his final pay in Pontotoc County, MS. This Benjamin Ward was born in Fayette County, Alabama and is listed as age 17 in his father's household in the 1860 Pontotoc County Census.

Susie, do you have your Benjamin's full name or the names of his parents or siblings?