Hearn, Benjamin S., Pvt. Co. I, 28th La. Inf. (Gray's). En. May 14, 1862, Monroe, La. Federal Rolls of Prisoners of War. Captured Alexandria, La. May 7, 1863. Paroled at Grant's Island, off Mobile, Ala., May 30, 1863. Roll for July and Aug., 1863, Taken Prisoner, April -, 1863 and Paroled. On Roll of Prisoners of War, Paroled Natchitoches, La., June 14, 1865. Res. Winn Par., La.

- b. 1840, Barbour Co., AL, 10th child of Samuel W. Hearn who was a pioneer settler in former Creek lands of GA and AL

- d. 1920 in Houston Co., TX and buried in Energy cemetery, moved to TX from LA in 1867

- m. Eliza Keener 1858, 18 children of which 12 lived to adulthood

- Life-long farmer and a Confederate soldier (Texas pension records #19036, #36640), Company I (Jackson Parish) - Col. Gray's 28th LA Infantry

- Volunteered February 1862 and surrendered May 26, 1865, pardoned June 14, 1865