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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Noah C. Sanders

(c. 1840 - ?)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 48th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 20 year old farmer at Monroe in Union County, NC with wife Mary (1839-) and infant daughter Alice. He was conscripted at Statesville, NC on 1 August 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company F, 48th North Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 19 September and afterward was a prisoner at Fort McHenry in Baltimore to 25 October, when he was paroled and sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was listed as a deserter in December but was back with his company by February 1863. He "deserted to the enemy" on 19 August 1863 with no later military record.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1840 in SC

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 34723]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Confederates In Frederick List , Published 2026, first accessed 28 March 2026, <https://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/confederates-in-frederick-list/>, Source page: #173 [AotW citation 34724]

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