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Spooner, Benjamin F

soldier, was born Oct. 27, 1828, in Mansfield, Ohio. At the beginning of the civil war he became lieutenant-colonel of the seventh Indiana regiment, with which he fought at Philippi and Laurel Hill, and he afterward held the same commission in the fifty-first Indiana, with which he was present at Shiloh and the siege of Corinth. He then resigned and returned home, but was soon made colonel of the eighty-third Indiana.

In 1865 he was brevetted brigadier-general and major-general of volunteers. He died April 3, 1881, in Lawrenceburg, Ind.