Person:Alexander Stuart (23)

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Alexander Hugh Holmes "Sandy" Stuart, Jr
b.14 May 1846 Augusta, Virginia, United States
d.6 Jul 1867 Staunton, Virginia, United States
Parents and Siblings
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m. Bef 1836
  1. Briscoe Baldwin Stuart, Esq.1836 - 1859
  2. Eleanor Augusta Stuart1838 - 1878
  3. Martha B Stuart1840 - 1845
  4. Frances Peyton Stuart1841 - 1875
  5. Mary Stuart1844 - 1933
  6. Alexander Hugh Holmes "Sandy" Stuart, Jr1846 - 1867
  7. Susan Baldwin Stuart1849 - 1903
  8. Margaret Briscoe Stuart1855 - 1932
  9. Archibald Gerard Stuart, Esq.1858 - 1885
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Facts and Events
Name[1][2] Alexander Hugh Holmes "Sandy" Stuart, Jr
Gender Male
Birth[1][2][3] 14 May 1846 Augusta, Virginia, United States"second son"
Military[2] 15 May 1864 Virginia, United Statesage 18 - participated in Battle of New Market while at VMI
Education[1] 1867 Lexington, Virginia, United StatesClass of 1867 - Virginia Military Institute
Death[1][2][3] 6 Jul 1867 Staunton, Virginia, United Statesage 21 - died of typhoid fever at his father's home
Burial[1] Thornrose Cemetery, Staunton, Virginia, United States
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Grave Recorded, in Find A Grave.

    [Includes photo.]
    [cos1776 Note of Caution: as of Nov 2014, incorrectly gives death year as 1868, but it is unclear if that matches monument inscription.]

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Family Recorded, in Waddell, Joseph A. (Joseph Addison). Annals of Augusta County, Virginia: with reminiscences illustrative of the vicissitudes of its pioneer settlers biographical sketches of citizens locally prominent, and of those who have founded families in the southern and western states : a diary of the war, 1861-'5, and a chapter on reconstruction by Joseph Addison Waddell. (Staunton, Virginia: C.R. Caldwell, 1902)
    p 372.

    ... The next son, Alexander H. H., Jr., (called Sandy), while a cadet at the Virginia Military Institute, participated in the battle of New Market and continued in the military service till the war ended. He then entered the University of Virginia as a student and pursued his studies with great success; but at the close of the session of 1867, he contracted fever and died in July following, aged twenty-one years. ...

  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Family Recorded, in Hull, Susan R. Boy soldiers of the Confederacy. (Austin, Texas: Eakin Press, c1988)
    p 125.

    Alexander H.H. Stuart, Jr., was the son on Hon. Alex. Hugh Holmes Stuart and Frances Cornelia Baldwin, and was born in Staunton, Va., on May 14, 1846. His paternal grandfather, Archibald Stuart, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and a member of the Convention of Virginia which ratified the Constitution of the United States. His maternal grandfather, Gerard B. Baldwin, was a member of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, and his father was Secretary of the Department of the Interior during President Fillmore's administration. A.H.H. Stuart, Jr., served as a member of the Corps of Cadets in the Battle of New Market, and continued in the military service of the Confederate Government until the close of the war. He then entered the University of Virginia, where he distinguished himself for scholarship. During the second year at the University he contracted typhoid fever and died at this father's home in Staunton on July 6, 1867.

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