One of the more mysterious tombstones at the Camp Chase Cemetery is number 2066. The stone reflects the names of the same soldier and implies that two men are buried. It may be one of the more misunderstood graves at the cemetery and one of the least known. The name of the soldier was Captain Benjamin Leroy Wilkes from Pulaski, Tennessee. Captain Wilkes had nine brothers and sisters and was born on January 14, 1832. His fathers name was Richard Ambrose L. Wilkes and his mother was Judith Harris. The parents both rest now in Maury county Tennessee. Captain Wilkes was married to Miss Sarah E. Moore on June 16, 1855. Captain Wilkes joined Clack's 3rd Tennessee Infantry on May 16, 1861. So early did he enlist that the State of Tennessee had not yet left the Union. When the State of Tennessee did leave the Union in June of 1861 he officially became a Confederate Officer. Captain Wilkes was the Commissary Officer for the regiment. The Commissary Sergeant for the regiment was his younger brother John Summerfield Wilkes. During the War it was common for the Commissary Officer to recommend someone for the job as Commissary Sergeant. A quartermaster or commissary sergeants rank came right under that of Sergeant Major and the position consisted as what we might imagine today as a grocery clerk for the regiment. Clack's 3rd Tennessee Infantry was captured at Fort Donelson, Tennessee on Feburary 16, 1862 and Captain Wilkes came to the Camp Chase prison while his younger brother went to prison at Camp Douglas, Illinois. Captain Wilkes was admitted to the Post Hospital at Camp Chase on March 6, 1862 and would die just days later on March 10, 1862. (A Quartermaster is another word for Commissary) He is the same soldier, there are not two Benjamin L. Wilkes buried together as the tombstone indicates. His brother John S. Wilkes was exchanged under the Dix-Hill Cartel and taken back to Vicksburg. After the exchange was made he was made the new Commissary Officer (Captain) of the 3rd Tennessee Infantry. Whom better to fill his old position of Commissary Sergeant than his older brother Richard Sparks Wilkes. Richard Sparks Wilkes would die of disease in Aberdeen, Mississippi in September of 1863 leaving only John Summerfield Wilkes. Captain John Summerfield Wilkes would survive the War and on January 16, 1893 the former Camp Douglas prisoner would be appointed to the Tennessee Supreme Court. He would serve as a Justice until 1908 the very year his brother Benjamin L. Wilkes would get his tombstone at the Camp Chase Cemetery that we see today.