Sgt. Maj. Zechariah Alexander

Sergeant Major Zechariah Alexander served in the 3rd North Carolina Infantry in the Spanish-American War, c. 1898. Photograph courtesy of Mrs. Kelly M. Alexander, Sr., Posed in his Spanish American War uniform ---- he was the patriarch of the Alexander family, whose generations would continue to positively make their mark on Charlotte and beyond. Charlotte, North Carolina, By Vermelle Diamond Ely, Grace Hoey Drain, Amy T. Rogers