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Subject: [IOWA] 1903 Bio of Addison H. Sanders
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 09:19:57 EST

ADDISON H. SANDERS was born on the 13th of September, 1823, in Cincinnati,
Ohio. His education was begun in a printing office of his native city and
completed at Cincinnati College. In 1845 and again in 1846 he came to Davenport,
where his brother Alfred, was struggling to put his Gazette on a paying basis.
During each of these visits he stayed several months, taking editorial charge
of the paper and thus relieving his overworked brother, so that he might
bring the business department into better condition. When the city had grown
large enough to demand a daily paper, Addison H. removed to Davenport, in October,
1856, took editorial charge of the Daily Davenport Gazette and continued in
that position until he entered the Union army. At the beginning of the Civil
War no newspaper in Iowa had wider influence that the Daily Gazette of
Davenport. Early in 1861, Add. H. Sanders was commissioned aid to Governor Kirkwood,
serving with Judge Baldwin of Council Bluffs and later in the year he was
placed in command of Camp McClellan, at Davenport, where the Union volunteers were
mustering for the organization of regiments and for drill. The Sixteenth
Regiment was organized early in the winter of 1862 and Governor Kirkwood was so
impressed with the excellent work and superior qualifications of Add. H.
Sanders, that he offered him the position of colonel of the new regiment. But having
observed the disadvantage of placing inexperienced officers at the head of
new regiments he declined the command, urging the selection of a regular army
officer for the place. The Governor and General Baker realized the wisdom of
such a selection and Captain Alexander Chambers of the Eighteenth United Stares
Infantry was appointed colonel and Mr. Sanders was commissioned
lieutenant-colonel. The regiment received its "baptism of fire" at the desperate and bloody
battle of Shiloh and at Corinth, Lieutenant-Colonel Sanders was wounded very
severely. He did gallant service during the war, often in command of the
regiment. At the Battle of Atlanta, July 22, 1864, Colonel Sanders was taken
prisoner, suffering everything but death in the Confederate prison and when
exchanged was so low with starvation and fever that for a long time his recovery was
doubtful. On the 2d of April, 1865, he was discharged from the service for
disability, having been brevetted Brigadier-General for gallant conduct on many
battle-fields Upon his return home, he was appointed postmaster of
Davenport. In 1870 he was appointed by President Grant Secretary of Montana Territory
and became acting Governor. In 1872 he was appointed Register of the United
States Land Office for Montana. He returned to his old home at Davenport where
for many years he has done editorial work on several of the daily papers. As
a writer, General Sanders has for a third of a century ranked among the
ablest in the State.



Debbie Clough Gerischer
Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County
http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/
IAGENWEB: Special History Project:
http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm
Gerischer Family Web Site:
http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/

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