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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Alexander D. McColl

(1847 - 1898)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 14 or 15 year old farm boy from Bennettsville in Marlboro County, he enlisted as Private, Company K, 8th South Carolina Infantry, date not given.

On the Campaign

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

After the War

In 1880 he was still working on his father's farm in Marlboro County.

References & notes

His service information from the Rolls 1 and Brasington's Roster,2 both as Alexander McCall. Personal details from family genealotists and the US Census of 1860 and 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

06/14/1847; Marlboro District, SC

Death

01/02/1898; Marlboro County, SC; burial in McColl Cemetery, McColl, Marlboro County, SC

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 K, 8th Reg't Inf, South Carolina Vols. [AotW citation 24305]

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: /8scvicok.html [AotW citation 24306]

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