Saunders, Robert James
Co. H, 5th NCV
Born 4-1861 [not possible]; died 9-10-1919. Joined 5-1861 Gates County . Wounded 7-1-1863 Gettysburg Pa, recovered and was taken prisoner near Spotsylvania either on 5-10-1864 or 5-12-1864. First taken to Point Lookout , Md. until 8-14-1864 . Transferred to Elmira, where he took the Oath 6-27-1865. He had to walk home from Elmira and almost died of diarrhoea. He is buried at the Confederate Home Cemetery , Raleigh, N.C.
Information provided by Walter K. Askew.
