Charles A. Saunders

Charles A. Saunders was a Billerica soldier of the 15th Massachusetts Battery of Light Artillery who died of disease at New Orleans on August 24, 1864. His name is one of those cut on the Civil War Soldiers' Monument on the Town Common.

He was mustered on December 4, 1863 into the 15th Battery, which had served in Louisiana since early that year, and joined it in the Department of the Gulf with several other Billerica recruits of that winter. He served eight months and died of disease contracted in the service at New Orleans in August 1864.

Nothing more about his family has been found in the Billerica records.

References

1. Hazen, History of Billerica (1883), p. 284: the Soldiers' Monument and the names inscribed on it
2. Hazen (1883), p. 290: record of soldiers, Saunders, Charles A., 15th Battery, died of disease at New Orleans 1864 Aug. 24
3. Billerica Public Library: Military Memorials, Civil War memorial names on the Common