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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Alpheus M. Stanfield

(c. 1844 - 1862)

Home State: Tennessee

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 16 year old Methodist Episcopal clergyman's son in Madison County, TN. He enlisted in Gonzales County as a Private in Company A, 4th Texas Infantry on 18 March 1862.

On the Campaign

He was with his Company at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was initially listed as wounded and captured, then as missing in action on 17 September 1862, with no further record. He was probably killed there.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and from his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. His first name is Alfred in the Park Service's Soldiers and Sailors System. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1844; Graves County, KY

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 148-150, 315-316 [AotW citation 1646]

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 26593]

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