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Federal (USV)

Private

Austin W. Saunders

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

He was in Company D.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

Basic information from Commonwealth of Massachusetts1. Age 29, a clerk in Boston on enlistment in April 1861. Discharged 21 Novemebr 1862 at Harrisburg, PA. Later service as an officer in the US Colored Troops.

Notes

1   Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Adjutant General, Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 Vols, Norwood (MA): Norwood Press, 1931-35, Vol. 2, pp. 94 - 96  [AotW citation 6928]