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Confederate (CSV)

Private

W. J. Alexander

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in Robertson County as a Private in Company C, 4th Texas Infantry on 14 (or 18) March 1862.

On the Campaign

He was with his Company in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was wounded by a gunshot through his right elbow joint in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was absent in hospitals in Richmond to 15 October 1862, then on furlough. By January 1864 he was listed on his Company muster rolls as absent without leave and "said to be disabled" from his Sharpsburg wound, but he had been issued a certificate of disability and discharged on 21 July 1863 at Shreveport, LA.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3.

Birth

c. 1841; Lawrence County, AL

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 152-153 [AotW citation 1701]

2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 26624]

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