CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY:  LUCIUS A. ALEXANDER - Smith County, TX

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson

LUCIUS A. ALEXANDER.

Lucius A. Alexander entered the service from Smith County in June, 
1861, in company K, 3rd Texas cavalry.  Born in Maury county 
Tennessee, in 1832.  His parents Silas and Mary Alexander, of Maury 
county Tennessee removed to Texas in 1840 and settled in Jamestown 
in Smith county in 1852.  Young Alexander was in the battles of Oak 
Hills, Mo., Elk Horn Tavern, Ark., Farmington, Tenn.,  and killed in 
the battle of Iuka, Miss., in 1862.  He in front of an Ohio battery 
that the brigade captured in a charge.  He was an educated young 
man, loyal to South, to her history and traditions, and gave up a us 
life in the cause for which the Southland fought.