Sanders, a farmer in Johnston County, NC, enlisted as a private in February 1862 in Co. I of the 3rd NC Cavalry. He also served in Co. F of the 16th NC Cavalry Battalion, Co. F of the 4th NC Cavalry, Co. H of the 7th NC Cavalry, and finally Co. D of the 3rd NC Cavalry. In September of 1864, he was on horse detail as he had no horse, and he was declared absent without leave although he claimed to have been discharged by civil authority for a mail contract.
After the war, he returned to farming in Johnston County, NC, moving to Harnett County, NC by 1880. Sanders died on January 22, 1898 and is buried in Sardis Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Linden, NC.
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