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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

Alexander Carmichael, Sr.

(? - 1862)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as Private, Company I, 8th South Carolina Infantry on 5 May 1861 in Florence. He was appointed Corporal on 1 June 1861. He transferred to Company L about April 1862.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action on Maryland Heights near Harpers Ferry on 13 September 1862.

References & notes

His service information from the Rolls 1 and Brasington's Roster.2

His son Alexander, Jr. was also in Company I/L, was wounded at Fredericksburg and Deep Bottom, VA, but probably survived the war.

Death

09/13/1862; Maryland Heights, MD

Notes

1 Thomas, John P., and and previous SC Historians of the Confederate Records, Confederate Rolls of South Carolina, Columbia: Historian of Confederate Records, 1898, Roll of Company I, 8th Reg't Inf, South Carolina Vols. [AotW citation 24294]

2 Brasington, William Albert "Bil", 8th South Carolina Volunteer Infantry (Rosters), Published 2014, first accessed 27 January 2018, <http://www.sciway3.net/sc-csa/carolinas-campaign/8scvi.html>, Source page: /8scvicoi.html [AotW citation 24295]

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