Edmund Brooke Alexander (6 October 1802-3 January 1888) was a US Army Colonel and Union Army Brigadier-General who served in the Mexican-American War, the Utah War, and the American Civil War.
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Edmund Brooke Alexander was born in Haymarket, Virginia on 6 October 1802, and he graduated from West Point in 1823 and served in the US Army during the Mexican-American War, being brevetted a major at the Battle of Cerro Gordo and a Lieutenant-Colonel at the Battle of Contreras and the Battle of Churubusco. After the war, he served in the American Southwest and took command of the 10th Infantry Regiment in 1855, leading it against the Mormons during the Utah War. He went on to command the 10th Infantry for the Union cause during the American Civil War, and he was stationed at Fort Laramie from 1860 to 1862, in Fort Kearny, Nebraska from 1862 to 1863, in St. Louis from 1863 to 1866, and at Fort Snelling, Minnesota from 1866 until his retirement from active duty in 1869. He died in Washington DC in 1888 at the age of 85.