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Benjamin S. Roberts was born on November 18, 1810 at Manchester, Vermont, of Welsh ancestry, the son of Gen. Martin and Betsey (Stone) Roberts. His grandfather was Gen. Christopher Roberts, of the colonial wars.
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Benjamin S. Roberts was born on November 18, 1810 at Manchester, Vermont, of Welsh ancestry, the son of Gen. Martin and Betsey (Stone) Roberts. His grandfather was Gen. Christopher Roberts, of the colonial wars.
After a common-school preparation, he was graduated from the United States Military Academy with the class of 1835, fifty-third in a class of fifty-five.
He joined the 16t Dragoons as a lieutenant, and after frontier service in Iowa and Kansas, resigned in the year 1839 to become chief engineer of the Champlain & Ogdensburg Railroad. He became geologist of the state of New York in the year 1841, and the following year was an assistant to George Washington Whistler in the construction of a railway in Russia from St. Petersburg to Moscow.
When he returned to the United States he studied law and began to practise in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1843. He served as lieutenant-colonel of the state militia from 1844 to 1846. At the outbreak of the Mexican War, he was reappointed a first lieutenant with the Mounted Rifles, and was promoted captain in February 1847.
He participated in the battles of General Scott's campaign and was brevetted major on September 13, 1847, for gallantry in leading a storming party at the taking of Chapultepec.
On November 24, 1847, he was brevetted lieutenant-colonel for gallantry in action against Mexican guerrillas near Matamoras, and when he returned to the United States, he received a sword of honor from the state of Iowa. During the following decade, he served at various parts of the frontier, and was promoted to the rank of major, 3rd Cavalry, on May 13, 1861, commanding the southern military district of New Mexico under General Canby, and participating in engagements at Fort Craig, Albuquerque, Valverde, and Peralta.
For gallant and meritorious service at Valverde, he was brevetted colonel on Feburary 21, 1862. He was promoted brigadier-general of volunteers the following June, and as a member of General Pope's staff, was engaged in the battles of Cedar Mountain, Rappahannock Station, Sulphur Springs, and Second Manassas. For gallant services in this campaign he was brevetted brigadier-general and major-general on March 13, 1865.
In the fall of 1862, he was detached to lead an expedition against hostile Chippewa Indians in Minnesota, but was recalled to Washington in 1863 to command a unit in the defenses of that city. In the summer of 1864, he was placed in command of the 16t Division, XIX Corps, in Louisiana, and until January 1865, was chief of cavalry, Department of the Gulf. During the remainder of the year he commanded the district and the cavalry division of West Tennessee, and after discharge from the volunteer service on January 15, 1866, was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel, 3rd Cavalry.
He served in New Mexico during 1867 and 1868, and was an instructor in military science at Yale College from 1868 to 1870. He was retired from active service on December 16, 1870, and entered upon the practice of law and the prosecution of claims before the government in Washington.
While so engaged, he organized a stock company to finance the manufacture of a breech-loading rifle of his own invention, and although he succeeded in negotiating a European contract, the venture was not successful. He died of pleuro-pneumonia at Washington, D. C. , in the sixty-fourth year of his age.
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On September 18, 1835 he was married Elizabeth, daughter of Anson and Laura (Pierpont) Sperry, of Plattsburg, New York. They had three children.
