Alexander Poinsette Lindsay

GEDCOM Note

[NewMaster.FTW] He was reared in Due West, SC, at the home of his father, which was located on the property where Due West High School stands in 1944. He attended Erskine College in 1851. Volunteered in the Confederate Army and while in Company G, Orr's Rifles Regiment, he was killed in action st the Battle of Gains Mill, Virginia while only 28 years old. His body was brought back by his brother, John Oliver Lindsay and Dr. J. I. Bonner and buried in the cemetary at Due West, SC. "Of course, you know that poor 'Point' [Alexander Poinsette Lindsay] was killed. He was shot through the left shoulder and died instantly with his face to the foe. Evidently he had stooped over to pick up his ramrod or tie his shoe when a minute ball hit him. When we found him all of his outer clothing had been taken off him by those buzzards in human form who follow the armies and rob the dead of the battlefields and whom we have orders to shoot on sight." Exerpt from letter written by A. B. Calvin Lindsay to his girlfriend from a "Camp near Richmond", July 4, 1862