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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.

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