Charles Alexander McAlister

In 1860 he was an 18 year old farmer on his father's place at Lavernia (La Vernia) in Bexar County, TX. He enlisted at Camp Clark in Guadalupe County as a Private in Company F, 4th Texas Infantry on 11 July 1861 and was appointed 4th Corporal on 1 May 1862. He was slightly wounded in the hand at Gaines' Mill, VA on 27 June 1862 and promoted to First Corporal on 1 August.

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

He resigned as Corporal and returned to Private on 1 November 1862. By January 1864 and through at least October 1864 he was detailed as courier to Major Generals Buckner and Field at Division Headquarters. He was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

In 1870 he was farming with his parents and siblings in Wilson County, TX. By 1880 and to at least 1900 he farmed and raised stock on his own place there. In 1910 he was retired and living alone in Dripping Springs, Hays County.

His service information from Davis1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Ellen Frances Glosson (1853-1907) in December 1871 in Guadalupe County and they had 2 daughters.

10/27/1841; Carroll County, MS

04/08/1911; Hays County, TX; burial in Phillips Cemetery, Dripping Springs, TX