James Thomas Saunders

In 1860 he was a 19 (17?) year old living with his widowed mother Lavinia and 3 siblings on their small farm at Smithfield in Isle of Wight County, VA. He enlisted at Windsor, VA on 22 April 1861 and mustered in Suffolk, VA on 29 April as a Private in Company D of the 16th Virginia Infantry. He was left at Charles City, sick, on 29 June 1862, then in a Richmond, VA hospital from 8 to 15 July.

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD by 12 September, left behind, and captured there.

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 19 September and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was in a Richmond, VA hospital by 7 October, sent to the parole camp at Camp Lee on 14 October, and was formally exchanged on 10 November.

He was wounded by a piece of shell to his left leg on 19 August 1864, probably at Globe Tavern near Petersburg, VA, and furloughed from Chimborazo Hospital #2 in Richmond on 8 September for 35 days. He was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer at Holy Neck in Nansemond County, VA.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850 - 1880.

He married Sarah Olethia Holland (1850-1891) in January 1868 and they had 5 children by 1880.

c. 1841 in VA