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Federal (USV)

Private

Alexander Gordon

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 100th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 21, he mustered as Private, Company K, 100th Pennsylvania Infantry on 31 August 1861.

On the Campaign

He was injured in an accident - run over by an artillery caisson - on 12 (or 14) September 1862 near South Mountain, MD.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 17 September 1862 with typhoid fever and died of that and/or his injuries on 11 October 1862. His body was taken home by relatives.

References & notes

Service from Bates1 and the Register.2 Hospital details from the Patient List.3 His injury from Roundheads data collected by David L. Welch. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1840

Death

10/11/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Greenwood Cemetery, New Castle, PA

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 23683]

2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant General's Office, Register of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-1865, 16 volumes, Harrisburg [AotW citation 23685]

3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #3.943 [AotW citation 23684]

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