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The Daily Dispatch: August 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], The prisoners. (search)
Death of an Army officer. --We sincerely regret to learn that Captain James B. S. Alexander, of the Confederate Army, died on Tuesday last, at Alleghany Springs. He was the eldest son of James Alexander, Esq., editor of the Charlottesville Jeffersonian. At the time Virginia seceded from the old Union, he was serving as a Lieutenant in the United States army, then stationed in Oregon but, on hearing the approach of hostilities between the two sections. He resigned his commission, and hovisional Army of Virginia, he was ordered to Lanyel Hill, where, under his old commander, General Garnett, he performed much hard service. His exposure at the time of the retreat to Monterey brought on disease, which terminated in death. Captain Alexander was a brave and gallant young officer, and his loss will be deplored by the country whose cause he loved, while to his family and friends there can be no greater balm than the reflection that it was in behalf of that country's welfare that