Ebenezer Magoffin

Not to be confused with Ebenezer Magoffin (October 3, 1851 – May 24, 1936), a son of Kentucky Governor Beriah Magoffin.
Colonel

Ebenezer Magoffin
Born1817 (1817)
Mercer County, Kentucky, US
Died1865 (aged 47–48)
RelationsBeriah Magoffin (brother)

Ebenezer "Ben" Magoffin (1817–1865) was a Confederate officer in the American Civil War who carried a Missouri State Guard's colonel's commission and became a prominent figure in the early phase of the war in Missouri. He was sentenced to death by a Union Army military commission in 1862, but was spared execution after Kentucky Governor Beriah Magoffin pleaded for the life of his brother with Abraham Lincoln.

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