Research
Joseph Alexander
Name: Joseph Alexander
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 22nd USCT Inf.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: n/a
Place of Birth/Residence: Greencastle, Franklin County, PA
Enlistment Date: 12/16/1863
Company: D
Slave at Enlistment?: No
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Enlisted in Chambersburg, PA; Wounded in Action at Dutch Gap, VA; Died at Summit House hospital, Philadelphia, PA in 1864
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).
