Alexander Madison Erskine

Born in Alabama, he went to Texas with his family in 1839 at about age 8. In April 1862, by then a 30 year old working on his father's very large ranch "El Capote" at Seguin in Guadalupe County, Texas, he enlisted with his brother Andrew in Company D, 4th Texas Infantry. He was wounded at Gaines' Mill, VA in June 1862.

He was in action with his Company at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was wounded in the left arm and side in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He may have been home on furlough to as late as January 1863.

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a surveyor in Seguin and by 1910 he was a civil engineer there.

Basic service information from Davis1 and Polley.2 Details from Susannah J. Ural's Hood's Texas Brigade (2017), quoting from his wartime letters and other family records, and from family genealogists online and the US Census for 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Elizabeth Maney (1832-1921) and they had 5 children between 1861 and 1871.

11/29/1831 in AL

01/23/1917; Seguin, TX; burial in Riverside Cemetery, Seguin, TX