CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: I. H. BENNETT - Smith County, TX 

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1 February 2002 
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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson 
I. H. BENNETT	

I. H. Bennett was born in Warren county, N.C., January 20, 1826.  
Early in 1860 there was organized in Warrenton the Warren Guards,
 with Benj. O. Wade as captain and I. H. Bennett as a lieutenant.  
This company was well drilled and in April, 1861, enlisted as a 
company in the Confederate service as Co. A, Second North Carolina 
Infantry, commanded by Col. Sol Williams, but afterward changed to 
the Twelfth Infantry.  His command was first stationed at Norfolk, 
Va., until the evacuation of that city, and then placed in a 
different brigade until the close of the war.  Lieutenant Bennett 
participated in the campaigns and battles of the Army of Northern 
Virginia until the end of the mighty struggle.  On the 15th day of 
August, 1846, he was married to Miss Sarah Yarbrough, of the Old 
North State.  They reside in Tyler he being in the employ of the 
Cotton Belt railway.  This is a grand old couple and are loved by 
all.  They moved to Texas soon after the close of the war.