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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Alexander Lamont

(c. 1815 - ?)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 24th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 46 year old farmer, he enlisted on 30 July 1861 in Weldon, NC and mustered as a Private in Company F of the 14th North Carolina Infantry. They were re-designated the 24th North Carolina Infantry on 14 November 1861.

On the Campaign

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD, sick, by 12 September 1862, left behind, and captured there.

The rest of the War

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 admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 9 October, sent to the parole camp on 18 October, formally exchanged on 10 November, and was discharged for being over-age on 17 November 1862.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 via fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2

Birth

c. 1815; Robeson County, NC

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 34285]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Confederates In Frederick List , Published 2026, first accessed 28 March 2026, <https://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/confederates-in-frederick-list/>, Source page: #4 [AotW citation 34286]

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