Benjamin Lewis Hodge

Benjamin Lewis Hodge

Benjamin Lewis Hodge (* 1824 in Tennessee , † August 12, 1864 in Richmond , Virginia ) was an American farmer, lawyer and politician . He also served as an officer in the Confederate Army .

Career

Benjamin Lewis Hodge, son of Ann C. Lewis (1797–1848) and John Hodge (1793–1825), was born in Tennessee approximately nine years after the end of the British-American War . Nothing is known about his youth. At some point he moved to Louisiana and settled in Shreveport ( Caddo Parish ). He subsequently studied law and began practicing as a lawyer after receiving his license. He married Caledonia Cash. In the following years he sat in the House of Representatives from Louisiana . In 1861 he participated as a delegate to the Louisiana Secession Convention. After Louisiana left the Union and the outbreak of the civil war , he enlisted in the Confederate Army on September 19, 1861 . He initially held the rank of captain . In the following years he ran unsuccessfully for a Senate seat in the first Confederate Congress . On November 11, 1861, he was appointed Colonel in the 19th  Infantry of Louisiana. Due to his poor health, however, he resigned from the army on July 15, 1862. He suffered a defeat in his candidacy for governor of Louisiana in 1863 . On February 19, 1864, he was appointed colonel and presiding judge in the Military Tribunal of the Trans-Mississippi Department . He was then elected to the Second Confederate Congress for the fifth constituency of Louisiana , where he took up his post on February 18, 1864 and held this post until his death in Richmond on August 12, 1864. His body was then transferred to Shreveport, where he was buried in an unmarked grave in Buried Oakland Cemetery .

literature

• Allardice, Bruce S .: Confederate Colonels: A Biographical Register , University of Missouri Press, 2008, ISBN 9780826266484 , p. 198

Web links

• Benjamin Lewis Hodge in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• Benjamin Lewis Hodge on The Political Graveyard website