Edward Porter Alexander

Edward Porter Alexander (b 1835) was an officer in the Confederate Army in the War of Secession and the Second Mexican War.

In the War of Secession, he became the chief of artillery in General James Longstreet's Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia at the young age pf twenty-eight. In the Second Mexican War, he commanded the artillery of the Army of Kentucky, and was second-in-command to General-in-Chief Thomas Jackson throughout the Louisville campaign.