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When Nellie and Alexander reached Midway in early 1861, Alexander resumed his teaching, but when the war began later in the spring he volunteered as a private and went off to fight. He served throughout the war, for a time in Kentucky under General Bragg, later with the Army of Northern Virginia under Lee. He was present at the Battle of the Crater, and at Appomattox. He was reluctant to discuss his soldiering experiences, according to my father, and the children knew little of what he had done. He apparently served as a clerk (not many southern soldiers Were so literate), and if he had promotions, demotions, wounds or anything special we have no record of it. 

Jean Dix Allaway

However, he joined the Confederate army, and in the second year of his marriage was fighting in the battle of Shiloh  in Mississippi, under the command of General Albert Sidney Johnston.

Annie Dix Meiers

Company A, 23rd Battalion, Alabama Sharpshooters under Gen. Bragg in Kentucky  http://www.tarleton.edu/~kjones/gracie.html#23rd Albert Sidney Johnston Infantry Company E 1st Battalion, Hilliard’s Legion  http://www.mindspring.com/~mchs/herald/prison.htm  Confederate Veterans Camp #151 Camp Lomax Company C, 59th and 60th Alabama Regiment  http://www.tarleton.edu/~kjones/gracie.html#60th Formerly Company D, 3rd Battalion, Hilliards Legion  http://www.tarleton.edu/~kjones/hilliard.html  Private, promoted to Sgt. Major http://www.tarleton.edu/~kjones/hilliard.html  Army of Northern Virginia where he surrendered with Gen. Lee The ribbon at the right, is an example of what the Camp Lomax Confederate veterens would have had.

Submitted by Eugenia B. Hobday