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Civil War Soldiers - Chambers
| Chambers, Alexander,
brigadier-general, U.S. Army, was born in New York in 1832, was
graduated at West Point in 1853, served on garrison and other duty
until 1855, and then took part in the Florida war against the
Seminoles, and was promoted first lieutenant in 1859. He became
captain in the 18th infantry, May 14, 1861, colonel of the 16th Iowa
volunteers, March 24, 1862, and on Aug. 11, 1863, was commissioned
brigadier-general of volunteers, his commission expiring April 6,
1864. He was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers, March 13,
1865, for gallant services in the battle of Champion's hill, Feb. 4,
1864, and Meridian, Miss., Feb. 14, 1864. Gen. Chambers engaged in the
Tennessee campaign, March 12, 1862, was twice wounded in the battle of
Shiloh, April 6, 1862, and once at the battle of Iuka, Sept. 19, 1862,
and for gallant conduct on these occasions was brevetted major and
lieutenant-colonel. He then served in the Vicksburg campaign, winning
the brevet rank of colonel for gallantry, July 4, 1863. He was
afterwards, until Feb. 1, 1864, in garrison at Vicksburg, and then
served in Sherman's raid to Meridian, and commanded a battalion at
Lookout mountain. After the war, Gen. Chambers was judge-advocate of
the district of Nebraska in the early part of 1866, and of the
Department of the Platte until July 31, 1867, was then promoted major
and lieutenant-colonel U. S. A. and served on garrison and frontier
duty, and from July, 1877, to Sept., 1878, was military attache at
Constantinople, Turkey. Subsequently he was stationed at Fort
Townsend, Wash. He died in San Antonio, Tex., Jan. 2, 1888.
Source: The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal
States 1861-1865, Volume 8 Biographical, 1908
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