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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

Alex Uriah McMasters

(1842 - 1901)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 17th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Known as Uriah, he enlisted in Company E, 17th Mississippi Infantry on about 1 June 1861 and was appointed Sergeant, date not given.

On the Campaign

He was probably wounded in action and captured at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was briefly at a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD from 15 to 16 October 1862.

After the War

By 1900 he was an election commissioner in Tishomingo, MS.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records via the Historical Data Systems database. The hospital detail from the Patient List.1 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Sarah D. Adeline Cole (1844-1920) in 1868 and they had 8 children.

Birth

11/11/1842 in TN

Death

10/27/1901; burial in McMasters Cemetery, Tishomingo County, MS

Notes

1 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #1.050 [AotW citation 21379]

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