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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

Alexander Raper

(? - 1862)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 12th Alabama Infantry

On the Campaign

He was probably mortally wounded and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died in Frederick, MD on 27 September 1862. He was originally buried "on west side of and in the cemetery at Frederick" and probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References & notes

Burial information from Pruett.1 He is also listed among the Confederate soldiers buried at Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Frederick, MD, and has memorials there. He's also seen as Alexander Roper.

Death

09/27/1862; Frederick, 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 4917]

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