Benjamin Mendenhall

Mustered into service as a Private on July 29th, 1861

Born 27 March 1840

Died 17 November 1919

Buried Arlington Heights Cemetery, Audubon County Iowa

Photo by Julie Grabill Rasmussen

Private Mendenhall was diagnosed with remittent fever soon after the regiment arrived in Washington D.C.  in the late summer of 1861. He would be discharged because of disability on November 13th, 1861.

 

He filed for a pension in July of 1890.

 

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