Major, Confederate States of America. A native of Kentucky and resident of Virginia, Sanders was taken prisoner when the C.S.S. Atlanta was captured by Union forces in Warsaw Sound, Georgia, on June 17, 1863. He was then held at Fort Warren in Boston Harbor. In August 1864, his mother wrote to Jefferson Davis imploring him to exchange her son, but she was notified by C.S.A. Secretary of War James Seddon that an exchange was not possible. He died, still a prisoner, from dysentery on September 3, 1864. His father was a confederate agent, George Sanders.
Major, Confederate States of America. A native of Kentucky and resident of Virginia, Sanders was taken prisoner when the C.S.S. Atlanta was captured by Union forces in Warsaw Sound, Georgia, on June 17, 1863. He was then held at Fort Warren in Boston Harbor. In August 1864, his mother wrote to Jefferson Davis imploring him to exchange her son, but she was notified by C.S.A. Secretary of War James Seddon that an exchange was not possible. He died, still a prisoner, from dysentery on September 3, 1864. His father was a confederate agent, George Sanders.
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Intermed on 10 April 1865.
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