| Emanuel Sanders is my great-great-grandfather. He was born June 14, 1843 to William and Luthisey Sanders of Lexington County, SC, the oldest of eleven children. He enlisted in the Confederate army on October 19, 1862 at a race track in Mount Pleasant, SC to the 20th SC Infantry. This was the unit formed by Col. Lawrence M. Keitt. Battery Wagner was the first duty assignment of the 20th. Emanuel's firat taste of war came chasing Union gun boats during the first and second land assaults of the Battery. The unit was eventually transferred to the Army of Northern Virginia. Two of the battles he participated in were Cold Harbor and the Siege of Petersburg. The closest he came to being seriously injured or worse was when he moved from behind a big stump just before it took a direct hit from cannon fire. Emanuel was discharged from the army on December 1, 1864. He had contracted tuberculosis. A pest unknown to Southernors before the War was the body louse. The soldiers called these vermin Graybacks. None avoided the louse including Emanuel. Upon returning home he was required by the family to take a bath and burn his uniform before entering the house. Emanuel married Martha Ergle and they lived most of their lives in Edgefield County, SC. He died in June, 1927 and is buried in the Ergle family cemetery on the South Edisto River in Aiken County. |
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| Ancestors of Camp Member Ken Temples |
| Pvt. and Mrs. Emanuel Sanders |
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| Grave of Emanuel Sanders in the Ergle Family Cemetery |
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| This is the grave of Pvt. William Sanders, Emanuel's father and my great-great-great-grandfather. He was a Private in Co. I, 6th SC Infantry. Grave is located at the Sanders family old home place. He was born in 1818. |
| -REDDEN PARKER .. Redden Parker at age 18 embraced the cause of the South and joined the Confederate Army on Aug. 26, 1861 in Camden, SC. He was signed up for the duration of the war by Capt. T.J. Warren. He was sent to Camp Lightwood Knot Springs near Columbia for training. Redden's first baptism by fire was at Fort Wagner on Hilton Head during the battle of Port Royal Sound on Nov. 6,1861. His unit was sent to Va. in July of 1862. There Redden fought at 2nd. Manassas, South Mountian, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg with unsurpassed courage before he died of Typhoid fever in the little town of Gordonsville, Va. on the 29th of July 1863. After I discovered where Redden's final resting place was, I decided to take a trip to Virginia to pay honor to this model soldier and heroic ancestor. So in May of 2001 a friend and I headed for Gordonsville, Va. When we arrived, our first stop was at the old Exchange Hotel where Redden died. This hotel, located along the railroad tracks in town was turned into a Confederate hospital during the war. It was here that Redden was buried along with over 700 other comrades behind the hotel. Two years after the war the hospital became a hotel once more, and the remains of the soldiers were re-entered in amass grave at Maplewood Cemetery two miles out of town. The Exchange Hotel is now a very nice Confederate Medical Museum where Pvt. Redden's name is listed on the original records of men being treated there. Of the more than 700 men listed, there are only 40 of these men with known descendants today. Could one of these brave soldiers listed there be your ancestor? The Web Site is -http:llwww.hgiexchange.org/ |
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| Exchange Hotel where Redden Parker died |
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| Marker at Maplewood Cemetery |
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