son of Mathew Patterson II and Nancy; husband of Martha Jane Peck married 10 Mar 1844 Lumpkin County, Georgia. Martha was the dau of Adam Peck Jr and Elizabeth "Eliza" Gayle.

Benjamin and Martha's son Andrew Columbus Patterson and an unnamed baby boy is buried Johnson Cemetery as well

Benjamin's mother-in-law Elizabeth Gayle Peck is also buried at Johnson Cemetery near Benjamin.

Patterson, Benjamin - Private in Infantry Battalion, Smith's Legion, Georgia Volunteers, August 28, 1862. Transferred to Company E, 65th Regiment Georgia Infantry, March 1863. Deserted July 11, 1863, Loudon, Tennessee. Captured at Benton, Tennessee, December 1, 1863, and sent to Military Prison, Louisville, Kentucky. Discharged to prison, Rock Island Barracks, Illinois, December 11, 1863; received there January 1, 1864. Appears on a list of prisoners of war desiring to take "Oath of Allegiance" to U. S. Government, March 18, 1864. Transferred to U.S. Navy from Rock Island Barracks, July 21, 1864.
Born April 1, 1819 in North Carolina; died January 22, 1882 in Russell County, Kentucky.

His son, Patrick Luther Patterson, joined the side of the Union forces. Patrick had already left home and on 1 November, 1862, he lied about his age and joined Capt, Buster's Company, 32nd Regiment of the Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, as a Private, Company D, 32nd Regiment, Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, USA; also again September 28, 1863 as a Private in Company F, 13th Regiment, Kentucky Cavalry, USA.

The Patterson family had moved back and forth between Tennessee and Georgia until Patrick's father, Benjamin, was conscripted into the army of the Confederacy in 1863. Although Benjamin Patterson had lived in the South for nearly twenty years, his loyalty lay with the North. He was from the Blue Grass State, the birthplace of Lincoln, and could not bring himself to fight in a war against his own son. On December 1, 1863, he turned himself in to Union forces at Benton, Tennessee and was imprisoned at Nashville. He was sent to Louisville, Kentucky, where he took an oath of allegiance to the Union and was released on parole on 10 December, 1863. His family had already made the move to Russell County, Kentucky, and he joined them there