Alexander Erwin Wilson

Almost 18 years old, he enlisted at Camp Clark in Guadalupe County as 2nd Corporal of Company D, 4th Texas Infantry on 4 July 1861, was appointed 5th Sergeant about July 1862 and was 4th Sergeant by September.

He was in action with his Company at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September, but was sick at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was promoted to 3rd Sergeant by April 1863 and 2nd Sergeant by February 1864. He was slightly wounded in the arm at Wilderness, VA on 6 May 1864 and was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer at Seguin in Guadalupe County. In 1900 he was the County Clerk in Seguin.

Service information from Davis1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Julia McKnight Fenner (1851-1906) in January 1868 in Guadalupe County, and they had 4 children.

He was probably named for his uncle A.E. Wilson (1803-1841), physician and Presbyterian minister, who died on a mission to Liberia.

07/26/1843; Mecklenburg County, NC

04/07/1906; Seguin, TX; burial in Riverside Cemetery, Seguin, TX