Benjamin F. Rittenhouse


Benjamin Franklin Rittenhouse was a U.S. Army 1st lieutenant during the American Civil War.

Rittenhouse was born in Berwick, Pennsylvania, to Benjamin Franklin and Henrietta Waring Rittenhouse, the third of nine children. He joined the Union Army at the outbreak of the Civil War as a 2nd lieutenant in Battery D, 5th United States Artillery commanded by 1st Lieutenant Charles E. Hazlett.

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