Category:Edward Porter Alexander

**Edward Porter Alexander**
	Confederate Army general (1835-1910)
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Date of birth	26 May 1835; Washington
Date of death	28 April 1910; Savannah
Place of burial	Magnolia Cemetery;
Work period (start)	1857;
Country of citizenship	United States of America;
Educated at	United States Military Academy (–1857);
Occupation	military personnel; engineer; author; army officer;
Employer	United States Military Academy (engineering, assistant professor, 1857–1861); University of South Carolina (mathematics, engineering, professor, 1865–1870);
Position held	commissioner (Georgia, 1883–1888); director (Union Pacific Railroad, 1885–1887);
Child	Bessie Alexander Ficklen;
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English: Edward Porter Alexander (May 26, 1835 – April 28, 1910) was a military engineer, railroad executive, planter, and author. He served first as an officer in the United States Army and later, during the American Civil War (1861–1865), in the Confederate Army, rising to the rank of brigadier general.