Brigadier General Edward Porter Alexander of Engineer Corps Confederate States Infantry Regiment and Confederate States Infantry Regiment in uniform/ G.W. Minnis, Photographic Gallery, 9th and Main Sts., Richmond, Va.

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Brigadier General Edward Porter Alexander of Engineer Corps Confederate States Infantry Regiment and Confederate States Infantry Regiment in uniform/ G.W. Minnis, Photographic Gallery, 9th and Main Sts., Richmond, Va.

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Minnis, George W., photographer

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1861-1865

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A bust portrait photograph of Confederate Colonel
Edward Porter Alexander in uniform

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Colonel Edward Porter Alexander
(1835 - 1910)
Home State: Georgia
Education: US Military Academy, West Point, NY, Class of 1857;Class Rank: 3
Command Billet: Chief of Ordnance
Branch of Service: Engineers
Unit: Army of Northern Virginia
On the Campaign

Of the Campaign Colonel Alexander later wrote:
"My reserve ordnance train, of about 80 wagons, had accompanied Lee's headquarters to Hagerstown, and had also followed the march back to Boonsboro. I was now [14-15 Sept] ordered to cross the Potomac at Williamsport, and go thence to Shepherdstown, where I should leave the train and come in person to Sharpsburg. The moon was rising as I started, and about daylight I forded the Potomac, unaware of having had a narrow escape from capture, with my train, by Gregg's brigade of cavalry. This brigade had escaped that night from Harper's Ferry, and crossed our line of retreat from Boonsboro. It had captured and destroyed the reserve ordnance train, of 45 wagons of Longstreet's corps."

".. I have already told of my being sent on the 16th to Harper's Ferry to remove the captured ordnance stores and to bring what was available for use to Sharpsburg. I sent to Winchester 49 field-pieces and 24 mountain howitzers, and quite a lot of artillery ammunition not suitable for our calibres ... in the afternoon [of 17 September] from Bolivar Heights, I could see the smoke of the conflict and the incessant bursting in the air of shells and shrapnel over the field where Burnside made his advance and was beaten back by A. P. Hill. "

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