Alexander Chambers

WOUNDED AT IUKA

This soldier was born in New York about 1832; was graduated from the Military Academy in 1853, and was made second lieutenant of infantry. He served in garrison and frontier duty and in the Seminole War. On the 24th of March, 1862, he was transferred from captain in the Eighteenth United States Infantry to colonel of the Sixteenth Iowa Volunteers. He served in the Tennessee and Mississippi campaigns, and was twice wounded at Shiloh. He was in at the siege of Corinth; was severely wounded at Iuka; took part in the Vicksburg campaign, and on the 14th of February, 1864, was brevetted brigadier-general. He was judge advocate of the District of Nebraska from January to June, 1866, and, for a year thereafter, in the Department of the Platte. He was then transferred to the Twenty-seventh United States Infantry, and in March, 1867, became a major in the Twenty-second United States Infantry.

SOURCE: Johnson Brigham, Iowa: Its History and Its Foremost Citizens, Volume 1, p. 418