Bennett, Risden T
was born June 18, 1840, in Anson county, N. C. He entered the confederate army as a private April 30, 1861, and rose through the several grades to the colonelcy of the fourteenth North Carolina troops. He was solicitor of Anson county in 1866-67; was a member of the legislature of North Carolina in 1872, and delegate to the constitutional convention of the state in 1875. He was judge of the superior court in 1880, and resigned to accept the nomination for congress as congressman at large from North Carolina; and was elected to the forty-eighth and forty-ninth congresses.
BENNETT, SAMUEL FILLMORE, soldier, physician, author. For many years he practiced medicine in Richmond, Wis. He served through the civil war in the fortieth regiment Wisconsin volunteer infantry; and during his service compiled several popular pieces, which were sung with great enthusiasm by the boys in blue. He is the author of the popular song entitled In the Sweet By and By.