CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY:  BEN A LONG - Smith County, TX

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Submitted by Mary Love Berryman - marylove@tyler.net
26 August 2001
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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson

BEN A. LONG.

Ben A. Long, of Bullard, Tex­as, enlisted at Larissa, Texas, in 
Company C, 3rd Texas Cavalry, and served four years. His first service 
in battle was at Oak Hills, Mo., Elk Horn Tavern, Ark.,rand in fighting 
the Indians at Chustenahila, where his horse. was killed in the cavalry 
charge,. Transferred East of the Mississippi with Van Dorn and Price he 
was with Whitfield, Ross and Jackson's cavalry division, and bore 
himself as a true knight He was in the battles of Farm­ington, Iuka,  
Corinth,  Holly Springs,  Thompson's Station, Vie sburg, Yazoo City, 
with Johnston in the Georgia campaign, and with Hood at Frank­lin. He 
was with Ross in the gallant service of that dashing brigade commander.
Ben A. Long is a native Texan, born in Nacogdoches county, 
August 31, 1838, and removed to Cherokee county in 1856. He was the son
 of Mr. and Mrs. James Long, pioneer settlers from the, State of 
Tennessee. He married Mrs. Bettie Petree Ledbetter.  He is a good 
citizen, and bears his proportional part of good citizenship with 
fidelity to every trust imposed. Like a good Confederate soldier, he 
makes a good citizen. lie was a private soldier and linked his name 
with Confederate history.