believed to be Stanhope Washington Alexander of Mecklenburg Co., N.C., and he is possibly holding a P53 Enfield, Type 3, rifle and appears to be wearing an 1861 sack coat style of Confederate uniform. He enlisted in Co. H, 35th N.C. Regiment (Infantry), on October 26, 1864, in Mecklenburg County. He was captured at Dinwiddie Courthouse, Va., on April 1st, 1865, and confined at Harts Island in the New York Harbor until June 18, 1865, when he was released after taking the Oath of Allegiance. He died on April 4, 1912, in South Carolina, and is buried in Laurelwood Cemetery in Rock Hill, S.C. This cased ambrotype belonged to Fred Roberts of Kinston, N.C., who was the grandson of Stanhopes brother James Needham Alexander.
believed to be James Needham Alexander of Mecklenburg Co., N.C., and he appears to be wearing an 1861 sack coat style of Confederate uniform. He enlisted Feb. 1, 1862, in Co. A, 11th N.C. Troops (Infantry). After the Civil War he lived in Lenoir Co., N.C., until the last two months of his life. He died in Raleigh, N.C., on January 14, 1918, and is buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Raleigh. This cased ambrotype photograph (this case is not original to this ambrotype) belonged to his grandson Fred Roberts of Kinston, N.C.