Alexander Allison

A 22 year old blacksmith from Port Carbon, he enlisted and mustered in Schuykill County on 22 April 1861 as a Private in Company C of the 6th Pennsylvania Infantry for 3 months' service. He mustered out with them on 27 July. He enlisted again, in Pottsville, on 7 September 1861 and mustered on 23 September as First Sergeant of Company C, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry.

He was wounded by a gunshot to his leg in action at Crampton’s Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 24 October and returned to his Company 22 December 1862. He was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant on 1 May 1863 (to date from 13 December 1862) but was mortally wounded by a gunshot in his right side in action on 3 May 1863 at Salem Church, near Fredericksburg, VA and he died at a field hospital at Aquia Creek, VA 2 days later.

His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File,2 with details from a Roster transcribed online by Stu Richards at Schuylkill County Military History and John David Hoptak's Agnes Allison's Sacrifice ... on his 48th Pennsylvania blog; pointer also to his picture, from an illustration in Schuylkill County in the Civil War (c. 1908). His wound and Frederick hospital details from the Patient List.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He was one of 4 brothers killed in the War: John at Salem Church, George at Spottsylvania Courthouse, and James at Action Grove Church.

c. 1839; Schuylkill County, PA

05/05/1863; near Aquia Creek, VA; burial in Fredericksburg National Cemetery, Fredericksburg, VA.