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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Alexander C. Douglas

(c. 1831 - 1862)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 6th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 30, he enlisted on 13 June 1861 at Camp Woodward at Summerville, SC as a Private in Company D, 6th South Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and died the next day in a US field hospital on the Israel Smith farm near Sharpsburg.

The rest of the War

He was originally buried "in front of Israel Smith's house in Peach orchard." His father William filed for his final pay in February 1863.

After the War

He was probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References & notes

Burial information from Pruett,1 who has him as A. Douglas, Company G. His service from his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3.

Birth

c. 1831; Fairfield District, SC

Death

09/18/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD

Notes

1 Pruett, Samuel, and Poffenberger & Good, Greg Farino and Western Maryland Regional Library (WMRL), Washington Confederate Cemetery, possible burials, Hagerstown (MD): WHILBR, 2010 [AotW citation 4444]

2 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 30285]

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