Edward Porter Alexander (1835 - 1910)

Born 26 May 1835 in Wilkes County, Georgia

Ancestors

Died 28 Apr 1910 at age 74 in Savannah, Cheatham County, Georgia

Biography

Edward Alexander is Notable.

General Edward Alexander served in the United States Civil War.
Enlisted: 1861
Mustered out: 1865
Side: CSA

Civil War Brigadier General, an Engineer and artillerist who graduated in 1857 from the United States Military Academy at West Point. Edward Porter Alexander was a military engineer, railroad executive, planter, and author. He served first as an officer in the United States Army and later, during the American Civil War (1861–1865), in the Confederate Army, rising to the rank of brigadier general.

Alexander was the officer in charge of the massive artillery bombardment preceding Pickett's Charge, on the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg, and is also noted for his early use of signals and observation balloons during combat. After the Civil War, he taught mathematics at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, spent time in Nicaragua, and wrote extensive memoirs and analyses of the war, which have received much praise for their insight and objectivity. His Military Memoirs of a Confederate were published in 1907. An extensive personal account of his military training and his participation in the Civil War was rediscovered long after his death and published in 1989 as Fighting for the Confederacy

See also: civilwardata

Sources

• Wikipedia

• Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 16 December 2018), memorial page for Edward Porter Alexander (26 May 1835–28 Apr 1910), Find A Grave Memorial no. 8335, citing Magnolia Cemetery, Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia, USA ; Maintained by Find A Grave .

Name: Ewd P Alexander Event Type: Census Event Year: 1870 Event Place: South Carolina, United States Gender: Male Age: 35 Race: White Race: W Birth Year (Estimated): 1834-1835 Birthplace: Georgia Page Number: 7 Household ID: 78 Line Number: 28 Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Affiliate Publication Number: M593 GS Film number: 000553006 Digital Folder Number: 004275974 Image Number: 00306

Household Role Sex Age Birthplace Ewd P Alexander M 35 Georgia Bessie M Alexander F 35 Virginia Bessie M Alexander F 8 Virginia Edward P Alexander M 6 Virginia Lucy Roy Alexander F 6 Virginia Adam L Alexander M 3 South Carolina William M Alexander M 1 South Carolina

Citing this Record: "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8RR-PQM : 12 April 2016), Ewd P Alexander, South Carolina, United States; citing p. 7, family 78, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 553,006.

Name: Edward P Alexander Event Type: Amnesty Event Date: 1865 - 1867 Event Place: Georgia Affiliate Publication Title: Case Files of Applications from Former Confederates for Presidential Pardons ('Amnesty Papers'), 1865-1867 Affiliate Publication Number: M1003 Affiliate Film Number: 16

Citing this Record: "United States Civil War Confederate Applications for Pardons, 1865-1867," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V4M8-4X8 : 4 December 2014), Edward P Alexander, 1865 - 1867; from "Case Files of Applications from Former Confederates for Presidential Pardons ('Amnesty Papers'), 1865-1867," database, Fold3.com (http://www.fold3.com : n.d.); citing NARA microfilm publication M1003 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1977), roll 16.