Research
George W. Alexander
Name: George W. Alexander
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 126th PA Inf.
Race: White
Place of Birth/Residence: Greencastle, Franklin County, PA
Enlistment Date: 08/02/1862
Company: K
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Enlisted in Greencastle, PA; Absent at Muster Out; as of 4/14/1870, discharge on file unsettled; Wounded in action at Fredericksburg, VA on 12/13/1862 and treated at the General Hospital in Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia after 12/13/1862
Source(s):
Soldiers’ Records for Franklin County, Pennsylvania, on the website “Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War,” Virginia Center for Digital History, University of Virginia (http://valley.lib.virginia.edu/dossiers); United States Census Bureau, “1860 Federal Census of Franklin, Co., PA,” [database on-line], [database on-line], Ancestry.com.
