Alexander Adams Lomax

After graduating in February 1862, at age 32 he enlisted in Durant (or Corinth), MS on 30 March and mustered as a Private in Company F (soon after, I), 12th Mississippi Infantry.

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD by 12 September, left behind, and captured there.

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 18 September and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was formally exchanged on 10 November 1862. He was captured again, on 30 April 1863 near Fredericksburg, VA and was a prisoner in Washington on 1 May. There is no later record with the 12th Mississippi.

He was ordained in 1863 and was commissioned Chaplain of the 16th Mississippi Infantry on 15 December 1863. He was on furlough in December 1864, but was with the regiment when they were surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

In 1870 and to at least 1878 he was the educational and/or financial secretary of Mississippi College, was active in the Southern Baptist Convention, and was a proponent of prohibition of alcohol. In 1890 he was doing missionary work in Yazoo City and by 1900 was at Batesville in Panola County, MS. He was pastor of the Baptist Church there at his death in 1906, age 76.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1850 & 1900, Leavell & Bailey's A Complete History of Mississippi Baptists (Vol. I, 1904), and his obituary in the Confederate Veteran.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Martha Arabella Lomax (relative?; 1845-1913) in January 1866 and they had 10 children; 4 reached adulthood.

His brother Henry was also in Company I of the 12th Mississippi Infantry.

05/1830; Obion County, TN

06/29/1906; Copiah County, MS; burial in Batesville Magnolia Cemetery, Batesville, MS