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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Alexander C. McAllister

(c. 1841 - ?)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

An unmarried 20 year old farmer from Wetumpka, AL, he enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company C of the 13th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was in action with his company at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was promoted to 5th Sergeant by June 1863. He was captured at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863 and was a prisoner at Fort Delaware from 6 July 1863 to 18 September 1864, when he was exchanged. He was in a Richmond, VA hospital by 22 September and furloughed home to Coosa County, AL for 60 days on 6 October 1864, with no later military record.

References & notes

His service from his Confederate Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives.2

Birth

c. 1841 in AL

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 32753]

2 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx> [AotW citation 32754]

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