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A.S. Wallace
(c. 1829 - 1862)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 44th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
A married 33 year old planter with a large place and 5 slaves on the east side of the Cahaba River in Bibb County, he enlisted in Scottsville as 2nd Corporal, Company B, 44th Alabama Infantry on 15 March 1862 ands was First Corporal by June.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
His widow Elizabeth filed for his final pay in June 1863.
References & notes
His service from the Alabama Civil War Service Database 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His memorial is on Findagrave. His picture is from a heavily retouched photograph in the FamilySearch database and posted on Digging up Your Family by Stephanie.
He married Lenorah Elizabeth Ward (1832-1901) in February 1851 and they had 5 children.
More on the Web
Stephanie at Digging Up Your Family has posted a transcription of an August 1862 letter Algernon wrote home, having apparently not heard from his family since he left home in March of that year.
Birth
c. 1829; Bibb County, AL
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD
1 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx>, Source page: /civilwar/soldier.cfm?id=211265 [AotW citation 24934]
2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 31638]