Alexander M. Hall

In 1860 he was a 15 year old living with his hotel keeper father Howell Alexander Hall and siblings in Raymond, Hinds County, MS. He enlisted on 13 March 1861 at Raymond and mustered as a Private in Company A, 12th Mississippi Infantry at Corinth, MS on 30 April 1861 (or at Manassas, VA on 28 July 1861).

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

He was back with his Company by December 1862. He was captured on the Weldon Railroad near Petersburg, VA on 21 August 1864 and a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD until sent to Aiken's Landing, VA for exchange on 17 March 1865. There is no later military record.

By 1870 he was a farmer at Brownsville, Hinds County, MS and later may have been a druggist.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound also on a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists, also as Alexander I. and Alexander J. Hall, and the US Census of 1860 and 1870.

c. 1845; Hinds County, MS