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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Alexander H. Lawing

(c. 1833 - 1864)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 6th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 27, he enlisted at Chester, SC on 11 April 1861 and mustered the same day as a Private in Company A, later I, of the 6th North Carolina Infantry. He reenlisted on 8 April 1862 at Louisa Court House, VA at the reorganization of the regiment. He was reported missing in action near Williamsburg, VA on 6 May.

On the Campaign

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD by 12 September, 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 8 October, formally exchanged on 10 November, and returned to duty in January or February 1863.

He died on 17 January 1864 at Gaston City, NC: probably at his parents' farm there.

His widow S.E. Lawing filed a claim for his final pay in July 1864.

References & notes

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 and the US Census of 1850; his parents were Middleton (1800-1865) and Margaret Waddell (1805-1873) Lawing.

Birth

c. 1833; Mecklenburg County, NC

Death

01/17/1864; Gaston City, 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 34881]

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: #94 [AotW citation 34882]

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