Individual Details

Marcus Alonzo Sanford enlisted in the Confederate Army as a private in March 1862 at Pensacola, Florida in the 1st Alabama Company A. He was captured at Island Number Ten in Tennessee in 1863. The Battle of Island Number Ten was an engagement at the New Madrid or Kentucky Bend on the Mississippi River during the American Civil War, lasting from February 28 to April 8, 1862. He re-enlisted as a private that same year in 1st Alabama Company A at Vicksburg, Mississippi. He was next captured at Port Hudson, Louisiana, on July 8, 1864. Port Hudson is an unincorporated community in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, located about 20 miles northwest of Baton Rouge, It is known primarily as the location of the siege of Port Hudson in 1863. He again re-enlisted as a private in the same Company in 1864 at Cahaba, Dallas County, Alabama, and continued until being captured at Nashville, Tennessee, in 1865. The dates he reported being captured do not exactly match the historical dates of the battles probably because they are from his recollection in 1907.
Source: Alabama, Census of Confederate Veterans, 1907, 1921, 1927
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Birth	31 Oct 1843	Dadeville, Tallapoosa County, Alabama
Census (family)-shared	6 Jan 1851	(Asa Sanford and Catherine Green Hanson) Tallapoosa, Tallapoosa County, Alabama
Census (family)-shared	16 Aug 1860	(Asa Sanford and Catherine Green Hanson) Dadeville, Tallapoosa County, Alabama
Marriage	1 Mar 1868	Tallapoosa County, Alabama - Caroline Dallas Thomas
Census (family)	21 Jul 1870	Oakfuska, Tallapoosa County, Alabama - Caroline Dallas Thomas
Census (family)	9 Jun 1880	Tallapoosa County, Alabama - Caroline Dallas Thomas
Census (family)	13 Jun 1900	Bessemer, Jefferson County, Alabama - Caroline Dallas Thomas
Census	1907	Bessemer, Jefferson County, Alabama
Census (family)	19 Apr 1910	Jefferson County, Alabama - Caroline Dallas Thomas
Death	9 Jul 1931	Bessemer, Jefferson County, Alabama
Burial	10 Jul 1931	Cedar Hill, Bessemer, Jefferson County, Alabama

Spouse	Caroline Dallas Thomas (1845 - 1910)
Child	Stella Maude Sanford (1870 - 1962)
Child	Alonzo Dallas Sanford (1874 - 1949)

Father	Asa Sanford (1810 - 1883)
Mother	Catherine Green Hanson (1813 - 1901)
Sibling	Oliver Perry Sanford (1833 - 1908)
Sibling	James A. Sanford (1834 - 1864)
Sibling	Mary Ann Elizabeth Sanford (1836 - 1920)
Sibling	John Hanson Sanford (1838 - 1913)
Sibling	Felix Pollard "Phillip" Sanford (1841 - 1924)
Sibling	William Wesley Sanford (1846 - 1923)
Sibling	Catherine C. Sanford (1849 - 1923)
Sibling	Asa Jefferson Sanford (1851 - 1929)

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