ALLSTON, Benjamin. b. Charleston, SC, 26 Feb 1833. Graduated USMA, 1853. Rice Planter and Episcopal minister at Georgetown and Union, SC. LT, US Cavalry, 1853-1857. LT, CS Artillery, 16 Mar 1861. MAJ, PACS, 20 Jun 1861, and temporarily ordered to 19th MS Infantry. Assigned as MAJ, 5th VA Cavalry, but unit never formed. Assigned to command of 4th AL Infantry, Fall 1861, while E. M. LAW recovered from wound received at Manassas, VA. COL, Adjutant & Inspector General's Corps, May 1862. Staff officer with E. Kirby SMITH and others for rest of war. Krick, Robert K., LEE'S COLONELS: A BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER OF THE FIELD OFFICERS OF THE ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA, (Dayton, OH: 1979), pp. 28-29.

CLASS OF 1853 (graduated 1 Jul 1853)
1604 Benjamin Allston
b. SC. Dragoons: frontier duty, 1854-1857. Resigned 1857. LTC and aide-de-camp to his father, Gov. ALLSTON of SC, 1857-1858. Rice planter, 1857-1861. COL CSA. Clergyman (Protestant Episcopal), 1877-1900. d. SC, 15 Jan 1900, age 68. 1980 REGISTER OF GRADUATES AND FORMER CADETS OF UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY, (West Point, NY: 1980), p. 245.

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