Alexander Grantham

Age 25, he enlisted on 9 March 1861 at Durant, MS and mustered as a Private in Company I, 12th Mississippi Infantry on 9 May 1861 in Corinth, MS.

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

He was absent on wounded furlough to about December 1862. He was wounded again, by a gunshot on 3 May 1863 at Chancellorsville, VA and returned to duty on 15 August. He was detailed as a divisional teamster from December 1863 to at least August 1864. He was wounded by a gunshot to his face and captured at Petersburg, VA on 2 April 1865, briefly in a US Army hospital and at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC, then held at Elmira, NY. He was released on 7 July 1865 after taking an oath of allegiance.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His wound at Sharpsburg on a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

His brother Armistead Otho Grantham (1834-1863) was also in Company I.

07/17/1835; Holmes County, MS

10/27/1891; Holmes County, MS; burial in Weston Cemetery, Holmes County, MS