CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY:  JOHN. S. SANDERS - Grapevine, TX

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson, p. 137-8.

J. S. SANDERS.

John S. Sanders was born in Claiborne county, Tenn., near Springdale, 
in 1836.  Believing in the cause of the South he enlisted in Oct. 1862 
in Co. H, 61st Tennessee Infantry, Col. F. E. Pitts regiment, Vaughan's 
brigade.  He was elected second lieutenant of his company and made a 
popular and efficient officer.  He was captured in September, 1863, 
and sent to Camp Chase and from there to Fort Delaware and confined 
until the close of the war, returning home in June 1865.  In Nov. of 
the same year was married to Miss Margaret Neal Stone.  He removed 
from Tennessee to Missouri in 1867,and after one year's resi­dence 
there came to Texas, residing in the vicinity of Grape­vine until his 
death in May 1906.  He is survived by two sons and two daughters.  A 
few weeks before his death, in meeting a comrade and discussing the 
war, he said: "Our cause was right; I know we were right.  I have 
lived right; let us meet right over yonder." This is the impulse of
every true Confederate soldier, and no patience should be given the 
apologist.