James Arlington Bennet

Biography

James Arlington Bennet was born in 1788 and lived through the early years of the United States as an independent nation. His long life encompassed the War of 1812, westward expansion, and the rise of sectional tensions that would define the nineteenth century.

Bennet lived to see the outbreak of the Civil War, passing away in 1863. He was interred at Washington Cemetery, his final resting place marking the end of a life lived through nearly a century of American history.