Edward Porter Alexander (May 26, 1835 – April 28, 1910) was an American military engineer, railroad executive, planter, and author. He served first as...
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Edward Porter Alexander (January 11, 1907 – July 31, 2003) was an American historian, museum administrator, educator and writer. He served for nearly...
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Edward Alexander may refer to: Edward Porter Alexander (1835–1910), mathematician, author, and Confederate Civil War soldier from Washington, Georgia Edward...
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describing the Battle of Second Manassas, Edward Porter Alexander wrote that Confederates who knew Porter respected him greatly and considered his dismissal...
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commanders and details the plan, beginning first with Colonel Edward Porter Alexander's artillery clearing the Union guns off the ridge, before deploying...
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Accessed May 15, 2023. Alexander, Edward P. Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander. Edited by Gary W....
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city. The city was renamed in honor of the railroad's President Edward Porter Alexander, hero of the Battle of Gettysburg for the Confederate States. On...
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Lippincott company, 1896), p. 365. Sears, p. 255; Clark, p. 69. Edward Porter Alexander, Military Memoirs of a Confederate. (New York: Charles Scribner...
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Longstreet had been assured by his artillery commander, Lt. Col. Edward Porter Alexander, "General, we cover that ground now so well that we will comb it...
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tethered to a boxcar on the York River Railroad, manned by Maj. Edward Porter Alexander. The appearance of this balloon reinforced McClellan's fear that...
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Brigadier General Robert Rodes James Patrick Stuart as Colonel Edward Porter Alexander Joseph Fuqua as Lieutenant Colonel J.E.B. Stuart Matt Lindquist...
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Royal Marines major general Edward McGill Alexander (born 1947), South African Army major general Edward Porter Alexander (1835–1910), Confederate States...
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film Pretty Woman as a bellhop. He played Confederate Colonel Edward Porter Alexander in the 1993 film Gettysburg and its 2003 prequel Gods and Generals...
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Alexander, Edward P. (1989). Gallagher, Gary W. (ed.). Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander. Chapel...
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television channel A&E produced a documentary focusing on this legend. Edward Porter Alexander – officer in the U.S. Army, Confederate general in the American...
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barrage from the beginning. Longstreet's corps artillery chief, Col. Edward Porter Alexander, had effective command of the field; Lee's artillery chief, Brig...
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South Carolina, to Alexander Cheves Haskell and his second wife Alice Van Yeveren (Alexander, sister of Edward Porter Alexander). She was educated at...
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battle descriptions Alexander, Edward P. Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander. Edited by Gary W....
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explorer and ornithologist Edward Porter Alexander (1835–1910), U.S. and Confederate States Army officer Milton Alexander (1796–1856), American militia officer...
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biography of Huger Alexander, Edward P. Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander. Edited by Gary W....
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Civil War. (Its first use in battle was by Confederate Lieutenant Edward Porter Alexander at the First Battle of Bull Run in 1861.) In this code, alphabet...
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headquarters that Lee's greeting was "abrupt and frosty." Colonel Edward Porter Alexander wrote, "Although Lee said only, 'Well, General, you are here at...
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2010-11-14. Retrieved 2010-11-12. Original from the proceedings of the Alexander Commission, p. 33. 2 March 1898. Image taken from Charlie Hale, "Regarding...
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opposed to surrender was Longstreet's chief of artillery, Brig. Gen. Edward Porter Alexander, who predicted that if Lee surrendered then "every other Confederate...
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(1,481 killed, 7,627 wounded, 89 missing/captured) of 48,500. Edward Porter Alexander wrote: The [Army of Northern Virginia] acquired that magnificent...
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ISBN 978-1-932714-88-3. Alexander, Edward Porter. Military Memoirs of a Confederate: A Critical Narrative. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912. Alexander, Edward Porter and Edited...
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ISBN 9781421410388. Alexander, Edward P. Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander. Edited by Gary W....
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D.C. One of Myer's principal assistants was Second Lieutenant Edward Porter Alexander, the future Confederate signal, engineer, and artillery officer...
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signaling system was by Confederate Captain Edward Porter Alexander at the First Battle of Bull Run. Alexander had been a subordinate of Myer's and assisted...
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CWSAC Report Update Alexander, Edward P. Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander. Edited by Gary W....
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