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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Armand A. Saunier, Jr.

(c. 1843 - 1864)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 17 year old orphan living on the Beauchamp farm at Utica in Hinds County, MS. Giving his age as 19 he enlisted on 25 April 1861 at Crystal Springs, MS and mustered as a Private in Company C, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 26 May 1861 in Corinth, MS. He was promoted to 3rd Corporal on 17 June 1861 but was reduced again to Private on 30 April 1862.

On the Campaign

He was slightly wounded in the head in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was with his Company by the end of October 1862 but was killed at Spotsylvania Court House, VA on 12 May 1864.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound from a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862, as A.A. Sawney. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1843; Hinds County, MS

Death

05/12/1864; Spotsylvania Court House, VA

Notes

1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 29631]

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