Benjamin Franklin Gordon
Benjamin Franklin Gordon was a Confederate States Army colonel during the American Civil War . Gordon had been a private and bugler for a Missouri regiment serving in the U.S. Army during the MexicanAmerican War. Gordon served in the Confederate Army under Brigadier General Joseph O. Jo Shelby in Missouri and Arkansas in the Confederate TransMississippi Department throughout the war. On May 16, 1865, with the war coming to an end, General E. Kirby Smith, as the Confederate commander of the TransMississippi Department, assigned Gordon to duty as a brigadier general. The Confederate government took no action on the appointment and Confederate President Jefferson Davis did not officially appoint and nominate Gordon to the rank of brigadier general because the Confederate Senate last met on March 18, 1865 and Davis was captured by Union troops on May 10, 1865. Although he was only agedat his death, Gordon survived the war by little more than a year.
Benjamin Franklin Gordon was born in Henry County, Tennessee on May 18, 1826. His parents, Thomas W. Gordon and Eliza Gordon moved the family to Lafayette County, Missouri in 1831. Thomas Gordon was a farmer, who later was elected to the position of justice of the Lafayette County Court.
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