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    1. [SCSUMTER-L] Colonel Henry Laurens BENBOW, CSA Manning, SC
    2. Ann Chernow
    3. Hello, everyone: This is my first time posting here. I have been told by other researchers that : "Henry Laurens BENBOW started out as a Capt. commanding I Co. 23 Infantry (Sprott Guards) but by the end of the war he was a Colonel commanding the 23rd Inf Reg. He was wounded and captured at Five Forks Va. a few days before Lee surrendered, and while in the hospital he was visited by Lincoln. Colonel BENBOW is buried in the Manning cemetery and there is a picture of him and one of his gravestone in the Clarendon County Archives." I would very much like to have a copy of whatever material is available on him from the Clarendon County Archives. I already have one photo of him found in a book on the Civil War, but would love to have information on and/or photo of his burial site. Does anyone here visit those Archives? Would you be able to look for this info for me? (I'd be happy to reimburse for any expenses or exchange research favors here in Nashville.) If not, do the Archives accept requests for copies of materials, etc? Also, I understand that his father was Moses Martin BENBOW who was a lawyer, and served in the SC legislature. Any fellow BENBOW researchers here? I am descended from Moses Martin BENBOW's brother Evan BENBOW, b. 1818 SC, lived in AL. Would love to exchange information. Thanks, Ann Chernow Nashville, TN chernow2@mindspring.com

    01/15/2000 04:43:05