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(c. 1841 - 1862)
Home State: Louisiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 10th Louisiana Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Son of a prosperous butcher, in 1860 he was an unmarried clerk living with his parents, 8 siblings, and 10 slaves at Bonnet Carré, St. John the Baptist Parish, LA. He enlisted on 22 July 1861 at Camp Moore, LA and mustered as a Sergeant in Company H, 10th Louisiana Infantry. He was promoted to Sergeant Major of the regiment on 1 January 1862 and elected Junior 2nd (3rd) Lieutenant on 17 February. He was promoted again, to First Lieutenant in August, and to Captain, date not found, but probably did not learn of it before his death.
On the Campaign
He was with his company at Harpers Ferry on 15 September but was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
References & notes
His service from Booth1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, both as Adam Alexandre. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860; he signed his name as A.J. Alexander.
Birth
c. 1841; St. James Parish, LA
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD
1 Booth, Andrew B., Records of Louisiana Confederate Soldiers and Louisiana Confederate Commands, 3 Volumes, New Orleans: State of Louisiana, 1920, Vol. 1, pg. 41 [AotW citation 13109]
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 33830]