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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Alexander J. Brown

(c. 1843 - 1862)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st South Carolina Volunteer Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 18, from the Orangeburg District, SC he enlisted on 1 July 1861 at James Island, SC and mustered as a Private in Company B, First South Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and "was seen to fall, enemy capturing the position immediately after."

The rest of the War

His father John W Brown filed a claim for his final pay of $97.23 in April 1863 which was paid in December 1863. John filed at the same time for another son, Joseph F Brown, also a Private in Company B, who had been killed on 3 July 1862.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, with Sharpsburg detail from the Memoirs.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850, which has his birth in about 1840.

Birth

c. 1843; Orangeburg District, SC

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 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 31928]

2 Hagood, James Robert, and Colonel Johnson Hagood, Memoirs of the First South Carolina Regiment of Volunteer Infantry ..., Barnwell: not published, c. 1870, p. 226 [AotW citation 31929]

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