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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Andrew J. Alexander

(c. 1835 - ?)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: Phillips' (GA) Legion, Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

About age 26, from Cobb County, he enlisted as Private, Company L, Phillips' Legion Infantry Battalion on 15 March 1862.

On the Campaign

He was captured in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain, MD on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was exchanged in November 1862 and was with his Company to 19 March 1865, when he deserted from his unit near Richmond, VA. He took an oath of allegiance to the United States and was sent to Illinois.

References & notes

His service from Graham.1

Birth

c. 1835

Notes

1   Graham, Kurt D., Phillips Georgia Legion - Infantry Battalion, first accessed 20 September 2012, <http://www.angelfire.com/tx/RandysTexas/page4.html>, Source page: /page10.html  [AotW citation 21981]