Richard L. Sanford

Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 118th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before the Antietam Campaign:
He was in Company E.

In the Antietam Campaign:
He was wounded in action on 18 September 1862.

References, Sources, and other notes:
Basic information from Donaldson 1. Wounded at Antietam by sharpshooter, through the thigh. Leg amputated. His rank and first name from the Park Service's Soldiers and Sailors System.

Notes

1 Donaldson, Francis Adams, and J. Gregory Acken, editor, Inside the Army of the Potomac: The Civil War Experience of Captain Francis Adams Donaldson, Mechanicsburg (PA): Stackpole Books, 1998, pp. 115 - 142 [AotW citation 2194]

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