Sydenham Benoni ALEXANDER, Congress, NC (1840-1921) ALEXANDER Sydenham Benoni , a Representative from North Carolina; born at ``Rosedale, near
Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, N.C., December 8, 1840; attended preparatory
schools at Rocky River and Wadesboro, N.C.; was graduated from the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1860; during the Civil War enlisted in the
Confederate Army in 1861 as a private in the First Regiment, North Carolina
Volunteer Infantry; elected captain of Company K, Forty-second North Carolina
Regiment, in June 1862; detached from his company in 1864 and served as
inspector general on the staff of Maj. Gen. Robert F. Hoke; member of the State