BENJAMIN NEWELL CURTIS -- 96th and 118th INFANTRYPLATTSBURGH DAILY REPUBLICAN -- February 25, 1938 -- 2,500th soldier"Rifle fire and a bugle call tomorrow will sound a farewell for ClintonCounty\'s last Civil War veteran. Benjamin Newell Curtis, 97, commanderof Walter A. Benedict Post No. 366 G. A. R., of Plattsburgh, diedWednesday night at North Ferrisburg, VT. Tomorrow, he will be accordedfull military rites.Bom at Saranac April 11, 1841, he enlisted in the Union Army, August 25,1864, with Company \"B\" of the 118th New York Volunteers. Later, hewas transferred to Company \"H\" of the 96th New York Volunteers. He washonorably discharged from the Army in 1865. In what battles of the war,he saw action is not known, since records are not now available.He died at the home of a son, Merton Curtis, after an illness ofapproximately two months. His death came less than two weeks after thatof Joseph Caderet, 90, at the time the only other remaining Civil Warveteran in the county.Survivors include two daughters, Florence Curtis of Troy, and Mrs.Frances Collins of the Turnpike, and one son, Merton. His wife, theformer Clara Collins, died in 1921.Funeral services will be held from the Collins home on the Turnpike,tomorrow morning at 10:30 o\'clock. Interment will be In the WestPlattsburgh Union Cemetery. Attending the rites will be the localencampment of the Spanish American War Veterans, of which he had beenmade an honorary member.Remains are to be brought to the Collins residence this afternoon."
