This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BENSON Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Bd.2ADE/721 Message Board Post: Does anyone have any info on my Grandfather, Thomas Benson? I believe he was in the 3rd regt. vol. cav. but have no actual proof. He was born in Palermo, Maine in 1830. He was stationed in Baton Rouge, LA. He got Maleria and because he then got sand in his eyes, he became totally blind in one eye and sight impared in the other. He worked as an orderly in the Contiband Hospital in Baton Rouge until he received a medical discharge sometime (I believe) in 1863. He later became totally blind. I have no information on him before he enlisted or after his discharge until he married Anna Gale in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1873. She was also from Maine but I don't know how they happened to marry in Iowa. My father always said that his father was a doctor in the Civil War but I can find no record of this. I also cannot find a list of names of the men who served in this regt. Hope so much that someone can help me. DOROTHY (BENSON) GREIBERIS