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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

William C. Sanders

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 18th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in Company K, 18th Mississippi Infantry on about 1 May 1861 and was appointed Corporal, date not given.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by gunshot and captured, probably in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was briefly at a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD from 15 to 16 October 1862.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records via the Historical Data Systems database. Hospital detail from the Patient List.1

Notes

1   National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #742  [AotW citation 21409]