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Alexander Scott (Medal of Honor)

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211: 317: 237:, Virginia. After recovering he rejoined his regiment on the march to Danville, Virginia, in April 1865. He returned with his regiment to Burlington, VT and was discharged July 3, 1865. His commanding officer Major Lydon, in recommending him for the Medal of Honor, stated, "during all the above period with the Color Guard, Corporal Scott refused promotion for the honor of remaining in that important and hazardous service". 264: 303: 243:
He had two sons, William H. Scott (b. 1869) and Charles A. Scott by his first wife and two children May and Alexander by his second wife. However, in 1916 Alexander Scott wrote "all children dead" on a pension application and in 1923 his widow stated "no children surviving" on her application for a
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at Monacracy July 9, 1864, this soldier, a corporal in Co. D, 10th Vermont Volunteers and carrying the State Flag while his regiment was withdrawing under very heavy fire of the enemy saw the color sergeant bearing the national colors fall out of line exhausted and drop to the rear which meant
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Alexander Scott was the only son (he had two sisters Margaret and Flora) of Alexander and Mary Ann (Day) Scott. He was born in Montreal in 1844, but his parents moved to Burlington, Vermont, when he was six years old. His father enlisted in Co. I,
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He first married Hattie Conklin in Flint, Michigan. She died in Washington, D.C., in 1876. He married his second wife Alice V. Skippon on September 4, 1878, in Washington, D.C.
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inevitable capture. Corporal Scott then nearly overpowered by the heat and fatigue picked up the national flag and carried both colors during the remainder of the action.
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Medal of Honor Certificate Issued May 13, 1916, Adjutant General's Office, Department of War, copy available at: National Archives and Records Administration
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Declaration for Widow's Pension (June 9, 1923) by Alice Virginia Scott – copy available at National Archives and Records Administration
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as a private at Winooski, Vermont, on August 2, 1862. He was promoted to corporal and was assigned to the color guard.
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October 3, 1916, pension application of Alexander Scott, Bureau of Pensions, Department of the Interior
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Interment record of Arlington National Cemetery for SCOTT, Alexander, Plot 17, Grave No. 18563
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Pension application of Alexander Scott, Bureau of Pensions, Department of the Interior
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On October 19, 1864 Scott was severely wounded in the right thigh by a musket ball at
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He died on May 27, 1923, in Washington, D.C., at the age of 78 and was buried at
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Emigrants from pre-Confederation Quebec to the United States
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List of American Civil War Medal of Honor recipients: M–P
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and died from wounds at Annapolis, MD on Oct 19, 1862.
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American Civil War recipients of the Medal of Honor
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A History of the Tenth Regiment, Vermont Volunteers
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