Isaac F. Alexander

In 1860 he was 20 years old and lived on the prosperous M.A. Banks farm at Mt. Zion in Simpson County, MS. He mustered as 2nd Sergeant of Company B, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 29 May 1861 in Corinth, MS. He was promoted to First Sergeant in February 1862, but reduced to Private on 26 April 1862 at the Army reorganization.

He was slightly wounded and captured in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.

He was paroled on 27 September, held at Fort McHenry in Baltimore, MD, then sent to Fortress Monroe, VA for exchange on 29 December 1862. He was back with his Company by January 1863, then assigned to the Ambulance Corps in May 1863. He was on that detail to 7 March 1864, when he was listed as a deserter, with no later military record.

In 1870 he was living on the John P Thornton farm at Cato in Rankin County, MS, with "no occupation."

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. He was listed as missing in a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862.

c. 1841; Westville, MS