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Federal (USA)

Corporal

William Alexander

(c. 1843 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Cavalry

Unit: 6th United States Cavalry

Before Antietam

An 18 year old plasterer, he enlisted at Philadelphia on 17 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company H, 6th United States Cavalry. He was promoted to Corporal, date not given.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in a skirmish at Barnesville, MD (near Sugar Loaf Mountain) on 10 September 1862 and died later that day.

References & notes

His service from the Register.1 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1843; County Down, IRELAND

Death

09/10/1862; Barnesville, MD; burial in Barnesville Methodist Episcopal Church Cemetery, Barnesville, MD

Notes

1 US Army, Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914, Washington, DC: National Archives, 1956, Vol. 141, p. 9 [AotW citation 32284]

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