Alexander, Edward P. Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander.
Edward Porter Alexander (1835–1910), mathematician, author, and Confederate Civil War soldier from Washington, Georgia
Stationed atop "Signal Hill", in Manassas, Capt. Alexander saw Union troop movements and signaled to the brigade under Col. Nathan "Shanks" Evans, "Look out for your left, your position is turned", which meant that they were in danger of being attacked on their left flank.
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Unlike such Confederate officers as Jubal Early and William Pendleton, Alexander eschewed the bitter Lost Cause theories of why the South was doomed to fail, given the overwhelming superiority of the North.
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Alexander spent two years at the head of that commission, headquartered in the coastal village of Greytown (now San Juan de Nicaragua).
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