Benjamin F. Lester

Private, Company A, 40th Regiment, Georgia Infantry, CSA

Private, Captain Joseph W. Anderson's Company, Virginia Light Artillery, CSA

Promoted to Private March 10, 1862

Attached July 1, 1862 as Nurse to Henry Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia

Transferred September 11, 1862 to Captain Joseph W. Anderson's Company, Virginia Light Artillery, CSA

Captured 1863 at Port Gibson, Mississippi

Exchanged 1863

Died June 21, 1863 at Vicksburg, Mississippi