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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Richard L. Sanford

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 118th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

He was in Company E.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action on 18 September 1862.

References & notes

Basic information from Donaldson1. 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]