[citation needed][1] Tracy was breveted colonel of volunteers for gallantry in the final attack on the rebel line at Petersburg, Virginia, April 2, 1865.

[citation needed][1] General Sheridan's line of battle was re-formed on Tracy's brigade at Cedar Creek.

[citation needed][1] He was severely wounded in the charge on Marye's Heights, May 3, 1863, and at Cedar Creek October 19, 1864.

[citation needed][1] Tracy fought in the following battles: Young's Mills, Bull Run, Lee's Mills, Williamsburg, Golding's Farm, Savage Station, White Oak Swamp, Crampton's Gap, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Marye's Heights, Charleston, Opequan, Winchester, Fisher's Hill, Mount Jackson, Cedar Creek, Petersburg, March 25, 1865, and Petersburg, April 2, 1865, and Sayler's Creek.

[citation needed][1] Upon his return from the war Tracy owned a store in Middlebury, Vermont.

He then became a US customs agent in Burlington, Windmill Point, Alburg, Richford, St. Albans and North Troy, Vermont.

[citation needed] [1] The Middlebury Register newspaper noted the following in 1879: "Col. A. S. Tracy, whose coolness and skill saved Will H. Tomlinson and himself from drowning at Lake Dunmore, Decoration day, has been presented by Mr. Tomlinson with a splendid Sharps Creedmore rifle, "Old Reliable," with a fine leather case, ammunition and all the needful apparatus.

The stock of the rifle bears a silver plate with an inscription explaining the occasion of the presentation.

"[3] He married Helen Sarah Dow in February, 1849, and they resided in her father's house in Leicester, Vermont.