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J.M. Sanders
(1836 - 1862)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 16th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
A clergyman's son, in 1860 he was a 22 year old student living with his parents and 6 siblings near Hartwell in Hart County, GA. He enlisted on 13 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company C, 16th Georgia Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action on 17 September 1862 at Sharpsburg. According to his brother Swan, who was with him, he was "hit in the head with a mini ball and his head just exploded."
The rest of the War
His father Samuel filed a claim for his final pay of $160.23 in November 1862.
References & notes
His service from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. The death detail above thanks to Laura Elliott. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His picture from a c. 1862 photograph of 3 of the 4 Sanders brothers who served in Company C, of unknown provenance, shared on the Georgia Confederate Images Facebook page (and other locations online); thanks to Greyson Beardsley for the pointer to that.
More on the Web
A letter he wrote his father on 10 August 1862 is in the collection of the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University in Atlanta.
Birth
03/25/1836; Hart County, GA
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD
1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 12195]
2 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 33823]