Brief Life History of Benjamin L
When Benjamin L Camp was born on 25 February 1837, in Campbell, Georgia, United States, his father, Thomas Westley Camp, was 32 and his mother, Mariah Lassetter, was 31. He lived in Walton, Georgia, United States in 1850. He registered for military service in 1861. He died on 18 December 1861, in Whitesburg, Carroll, Georgia, United States, at the age of 24, and was buried in Whitesburg, Carroll, Georgia, United States.
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- Benjamin L Camp, "United States Census, 1850"
- Benjamin L. Camp, "Find A Grave Index"
- Benjamin L Camp, "Georgia Civil War Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865"
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1838 · Orders No. 25 Removes Cherokees
A small group of Cherokees from Georgia voluntarily migrated to the Indian Territory. The remaining Cherokees in Georgia resisted the mounting pressure to leave. In 1838, U.S. President Martin Van Buren ordered U.S. troops to remove the Cherokee Nation. The troops gathered the Cherokees and marched them and other Native Americans from North Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama along what is now known as “The Trail of Tears.” Approximately 5,000 Cherokees died on their way to Indian Territory.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1861
Civil War History - Some 11,000 Georgians gave their lives in defense of their state a state that suffered immense destruction. But wars end brought about an even more dramatic figure to tell: 460,000 African-Americans were set free from the shackles of slavery to begin new lives as free people.
Name Meaning
Dutch (also Van de Camp) and North German: from camp ‘enclosed, fenced, or hedged piece of land, field’, from Latin campus ‘plain’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived by such a field. Compare Kamp .
English: from Middle English kempe ‘warrior’; see Kemp . The spelling Camp may be due to the influence of Old English camp ‘battle’ and campian ‘to fight’, or of Old French campion ‘warrior, champion’.
French: mainly southern form of Champ .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Benjamin L. Camp
Benjamin was a 1st Corporal in Company K and enlisted on September 25, 1861. He died of typhoid fever on December 18, 1861 in Campbell County, Georgia.
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