military officer
Benjamin F. Cheatham.
Confederate Army general and owner of a gold mine
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About Benjamin F. Cheatham
Benjamin Franklin Cheatham was a Confederate general during the American Civil War. He served in the Army of Tennessee, inflicting many casualties on Gen. Sherman at Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia, but took the blame for General Schofield's escape at Spring Hill – a major factor in the Confederate defeat at Franklin, Tennessee in 1864. Later in life, he became a gold miner in California and a plantation owner in his home state of Tennessee.
Everything about Benjamin F. Cheatham →- Occupation
- military officer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- October 20, 1820
- Died
- September 4, 1886