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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Alexander S. Taylor

(c. 1841 - 1862)

Home State: Tennessee

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Tennessee Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 20 year old student, he enlisted as Private, Company E, 7th Tennessee Infantry on about 15 May 1861.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Boteler's Ford near Shepherdstown, VA on 20 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds on 30 September 1862, place not given.

References & notes

His service from Lindsley1, who has him as Alexander T. Talor and says he was killed outright at Shepherdstown, and the index to his Compiled Service Records via the Historical Data Systems database, as S. Taylor. His wound and further details from William Thomas Venner's The 7th Tennessee Infantry in the Civil War (2013).

Birth

c. 1841

Death

09/30/1862

Notes

1   Lindsley, John Berrien, The Military Annals of Tennessee. Confederate, Nashville: J.M. Lindsley, 1886, pg. 263  [AotW citation 25418]