G. F. Sally, age 26, 5' 7", resident of Deshay[?] County, Arkansas, Private, Company A, Sanders Battalion Arkansas Cavalry, captured and
paroled in Hospital at Oxford, Miss. December 23, 1862, no other records
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William Tait, age 52, 5' 10", resident of Shely[?] County, Tennessee, Private, Company A, Sanders Battalion Arkansas Cavalry, captured and paroled in Hospital at Oxford, Miss., December 23, 1862, no other records
M317: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Arkansas
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Edward J. Sanders
Residence was not listed;
Enlisted on 4/26/1862 at Memphis, TN as a Captain.
On 4/26/1862 he was commissioned into "A" Co. TN 17th Battn Cavalry Organized: on 9/15/62, Mustered Out: 12/15/64
(date and method of discharge not given)
Promotions:
* Major
Intra Regimental Company Transfers:
* from company A to Field & Staff
Sources used by Historical Data Systems, Inc.:
- Index to Compiled Confederate Military Service Records
- Field Officers, Regiments & Battalions of CS Army
- Tennesseans in the Civil War
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17th Battalion Tennessee Cavalry, also called Sanders' Battalion of Partisan Rangers [organized September 15, 1862], merged into the 9th Mississippi Cavalry
Battalion
E. J. Sanders, Major
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George F. Salle, Private, Capt. E. J. Sanders' Independent Company (Confederate Rangers),* enlisted June 1, 1862 at Baldwin, Miss. by Capt. Sanders for the war, recorded October 31, 1862 as absent, sick with leave since October 26, received pay on April 30, 1863, recorded on December 31, 1863 as absent, sick with leave, no further records
* This company was successively designated at Captain Sanders' Independent Company, Brevet Captain Flournoy's Company, Sanders' Battalion Independent Cavalry, and Company A, 17th (Sanders') Battalion Tennessee Cavalry
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William Tait, age 57, Private, Capt. E. J. Sanders' Independent Company (Confederate Rangers), joined for duty in Tennessee by E. J. Sanders for the war, detailed as Wagon Master October 20, 1862, recorded August 31, 1863 and at the end of the year, as absent, in enemies' lines in Memphis, Tennessee, no further records
M268: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Tennessee
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William Tait, Private, Company B, 9th Regiment Mississippi Cavalry, surrendered and paroled at Augusta, Georgia May 31, 1865
M269: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Mississippi
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17th (SANDERS') TENNESSEE
CAVALRY BATTALION
Organized September 15, 1862; consolidated with 17th Mississippi Cavalry Battalion to form 9th Mississippi Cavalry Regiment in December 1864. This battalion was composed of only three companies, one of which, Company "A", was composed principally of Tennesseans. The other two were Mississippi companies.
FIELD OFFICERS
Major-Edward I. Sanders
CAPTAINS
Edward I. Sanders, Co. "A". "Confederate Rangers". Organized April 26, 1862 at Memphis. Some individual records show enlistments as early as September 9, 1861. Became Thomas C. Flournoy's Company, 9th Mississippi Cavalry Regiment.
L. E. Hill, T. C. Brown, Co. "B". "The Chickasaw Mounted Guards". Organized March 20, 1862 at Okolona, Mississippi. Became Company "E", 9th Mississippi Cavalry Regiment.
P. A. Mann, James C. Brock, Co. "C", formerly called "B". Organized May 1, 1862 at Aberdeen, Mississippi. Became Company "F", 9th Mississippi Cavalry Regiment.
Companies "B" and "C" were illegally mustered into the 12th Mississippi Cavalry Battalion in August 1863, but were ordered returned to Major Sanders by Major General Stephen D. Lee. When they returned to the battalion, their Company letters were reversed.
On organization of the battalion, Captain Edward J. Sanders became Major. The report from Company "B" dated October 31, 1862 stated: "This company was in battle at Courtland, Denmark, Iuka. Engaged at Iuka and Burnsville six times; at Corinth, engaged both days on the left wing. Was in the rear in the retreat from Iuka, and skirmished with the enemy for nine miles." Company "C" reported its company papers lost in the retreat from Corinth.
On July 13, 1862, Brigadier General Frank C. Armstrong, Commanding Cavalry Brigade, Army of the West, reported: "Captain Sanders' Company encamped near Verona, but is now scouting Northward from Marietta." On July 19, Sanders' and Hill's Companies were reported with General Armstrong at Fulton, Mississippi.
On August 28, Brigadier General Lewis Henry Little, Commanding Division, ordered: "You will order Captain E. I. Sanders to move Northward immediately with his company and Captain Mann's Partisan Rangers for the purpose of ascertaining the position and movements of the enemy between the Mississippi and Ohio Railroad and Tuscumbia, Alabama. These companies are now at Bay Springs."
On September 5, General Armstrong, at La Grange, Tennessee, in the midst of his raid into West Tennessee, inquired if Sanders' Company could not be sent to him at Ripley, Mississippi.
On January 20, 1863, Sanders' Battalion, Baxter's Scouts, and a company of regulars constituted the reserve at the Headquarters of the Cavalry Corps of the Department of Mississippi and Louisiana at Grenada, Mississippi.
In March and April, as part of Armstrong's Brigade, the battalion was with Forrest on his operations in Middle Tennessee as part of Van Dorn's Corps, participating in the attack on Thompson Station March 5; the capture of the 22nd Wisconsin Infantry at Brentwood, March 25; and the engagement at Franklin April 10. At Thompson Station, the battalion reported seven killed, including Captain L. E. Hill, and 14 wounded.
On October 2, 1863, Major General Stephen D. Lee, at New Albany, Mississippi, ordered: "Brigadier General S. W. Ferguson, with the following portions of his command will move at once to the vicinity of Cherry Creek, and there await further orders: 2nd Alabama, 56th Alabama, Barteau's Tennessee Regiment, Sanders' Battalion, and Owen's Battery." This was in preparation for another expedition into Tennessee.
The last record of the battalion dated November 20, 1863, reported it in Ferguson's Brigade, composed of 2nd and 56th Alabama Regiments, 12th Mississippi Battalion, Sanders' Tennessee Battalion, 2nd, or 22nd,(Barteau's) Tennessee Regiment and Owens'Arkansas Battery.
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