Lucius A Alexander (1831 - 1862)

Born 24 Nov 1831 in Maury County, Tennessee

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Died 19 Sep 1862 at age 30 in Iuka, Tishomingo County, Mississippi

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Biography

Lucius Alexander was Killed in Action in the Battle of Luka, Mississippi, in 1862 during the United States of Civil War.

Lucius A Alexander entered the service from Smith County in June, 1861, in Company K, 3rd Texas Cavalry.

Born in Maury county Tennessee, in 1832. His parents, Silas Alexander (1796-1869) and Mary Kennedy (1804-1881), of Maury county Tennessee removed to Texas in 1840 and settled in Jamestown in Smith county in 1852.

Young Alexander was in the battles of Oak Hills, Missouri, Elk Horn Tavern, Arkansas, Farmington, Tennessee, and killed in the Battle of Iuka, Mississippi, in 1862. He fell in front of an Ohio battery that the brigade captured in a charge. He was an educated young man, loyal to the South, to her history and traditions, and gave up a useful life in the cause for which the Southland fought.^[1]

Final resting place in Confederate Mass Grave, Iuka, Mississippi.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Texans Who Wore the Gray, Sidney Smith Johnson, 1907, Page 15.
2. ↑ Lucius A Alexander, Find A Grave: Memorial #184873105, accessed February 20, 2020.

• "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK41-15YH : 10 March 2021), Silas Alexander and Mary Kennedy, 11 Oct 1823; citing Maury, Tennessee, United States, Marriage, p. , Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville and county clerk offices from various counties; FHL microfilm 2,281,597.
• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXLL-S3V : 23 December 2020), L Alexander in household of Silas Alexander, Harrison, Texas, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXFV-1NT : 18 February 2021), Lucious Alexander in entry for Silus Alexander, 1860.