A splendid rebuke to the present millennial slacker culture, Alexander Tyler ran away from his ancestral home, Sherwood Forest Plantation, to join the Confederate Army of Virginia at the age of fourteen. Pardoned at Appomattox, along with Robert E. Lee, Tyler left for Germany to continue his education in engineering at Carlsruhe and Freiberg,Saxony. In 1870 at the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War, Tyler joined the First Uhlan Regiment, serving with distinction in the campaign and subsequent occupation of France. He was decorated for his service by Kaiser Wilhelm I, and sadly passed away while working as a mining engineer in New Mexico at the age of 35. His improbable burial in East Hampton is the result of his marriage to a daughter of the Gardiner clan.