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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Joseph Sanford

(c. 1842 - 1862)

Home State: Virginia

Branch of Service: Artillery

Unit: Fredericksburg (VA) Artillery

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 17 year old living with his prosperous farmer father and 4 siblings in Spotsylvania Courthouse, VA. He enlisted as a Private in the Fredericksburg Light Artillery battery, date not given.

On the Campaign

He was with his battery in Maryland and was mortally wounded in action at Boteler's Ford near Shepherdstown, VA on 19 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds in the CS hospital in Berryville, VA on 25 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850 (as S. Joseph Sanford) & 1860.

His father also owned the Spotsylvania Hotel (c. 1850) and his brother William Lawrence Sanford was also a member of the battery.

Birth

c. 1842 in VA

Death

09/25/1862; Berryville, 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 30448]

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