ALEXANDER McCABE -- 22nd INFANTRYBLOOMER ENLISTED IN KEESEVILLE - Vermont-born Alexander McCabe wasworking as a bloomer and living in Schuyler Falls in 1863, when he wasadded to the Draft Registration List there. He had just returned to theNorth Country after spending 16 months in the 22nd Infantry.Alexander enlisted in the 22nd in Keeseville in November 1861 andpromised to serve until the muster-out of the regiment in May 1863. Hewas mustered in on November 27th, six months after they organized inTroy, and assigned to Company C under the command of Robert Hazeltine atUpton's Hill where they were encamped.The next March, the regiment was at Falmouth, VA, near Fredericksburg,and had ten men taken prisoner. They returned to Manassas in August,then went on General Pope's Campaign and had 180 casualties in two weeksout of the 379 men engaged.The first week of September was spent in camp at Upton\'s Hill nearArlington and then they marched to South Mountain in Maryland andreceived 30 more casualties. Three days later, on September 17th,another 30 casualties were accrued at Antietam, a few miles to the west.About the middle of November, the command arrived at Falmouth, just overa hundred miles to the south, and participated in the battle ofFredericksburg, being stationed on the extreme left of the army andsuffering only minor injuries. While in camp in the winter of 1862/63,Alexander became ill and was discharged on a Surgeon's Certificate ofDisability on January 7, 1863.He moved to Vermont and by June 1865, he was married in Middlebury. Thecouple lived in the Middlebury area until Alexander died in 1901. He wasburied in the Prospect Cemetery in East Middlebury. Ann Duffy, his wife,was buried near him in 1903.
