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Subject: Benjamin Franklin Prater in 1855


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>  January 19, 1861 - Georgia secedes from the Union.
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> October 1862 - The first Confederate troops arrive in Whitfield County.
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> 1862-1863 - Benjamin Franklin Prater sells corn, hay, fodder, bacon, split
> rails and planks to the Confederacy for $1,591.17 Confederate dollars.
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> 1863 - Ben Prater, age 37, enlists as a third lieutenant with Company I,
> First Regiment Georgia State Guards, also known as the Red Hill Home
Guards.
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> February 23, 1864 - Union forces under Colonel Eli Long camp at Prater's
> Mill with 350 mounted infantry, 250 Cavalry and 12 prisoners.
>
> April 13, 1864 - Confederate General Joseph Wheeler's Calvary camped at
> Prater's Mill.
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