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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Alexander Prescott

(c. 1844 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 48th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 16 year old living with his parents and 4 siblings at Green's Cut in Burke County, GA. He enlisted in Charleston, SC on 12 May 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company D, 48th Georgia Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. He is on a Sharpsburg casualty list in the Richmond (VA) Enquirer of 17 October 1862, as missing in action. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His cenotaph is on Findagrave; his modern stone has his birth in 1842.

His brother Jefferson was also at Sharpsburg with Company D.

Birth

c. 1844 in GA

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 19631]

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 31798]

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