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Birth	:	2 May 1836
Death	:	7 Dec 1910
Burial	:	Fairfield Cemetery, Fairfield, Clay County, USA
Coordinate	:	40.4094009, -98.0982971
Description	:	GAR 1861-1865: Cpl. Co. B 11th Wis. Infantry James Manley Sanford Born in St. Joseph, Berrien, Michigan, USA on 2nd of May, 1836, two years before the town was called Newburyport. James was born to James Doolittle Sanford and Sibbal Coan Hayden. James Manley married 1st. Martha Lois Smith and had 6 children. James Manley, married 2nd. Jennie Hall Taylor and had 3 children. James Manley married 3rd. Emily L Manzer. James Manley married 4th. A. C. Andrews. He passed away on 1911,in Fairfield, Clay Co., Nebraska, USA. James Manley Sanford's Parents: James Doolittle Sanford 1813-1902 Sibbal Coan Hayden 1809-1893 Spouse(s) 1st. Martha Lois Smith 1837-1873 2nd. Jennie... Read More	GAR 1861-1865: Cpl. Co. B 11th Wis. Infantry James Manley Sanford Born in St. Joseph, Berrien, Michigan, USA on 2nd of May, 1836, two years before the town was called Newburyport. James was born to James Doolittle Sanford and Sibbal Coan Hayden. James Manley married 1st. Martha Lois Smith and had 6 children. James Manley, married 2nd. Jennie Hall Taylor and had 3 children. James Manley married 3rd. Emily L Manzer. James Manley married 4th. A. C. Andrews. He passed away on 1911,in Fairfield, Clay Co., Nebraska, USA. James Manley Sanford's Parents: James Doolittle Sanford 1813-1902 Sibbal Coan Hayden 1809-1893 Spouse(s) 1st. Martha Lois Smith 1837-1873 2nd. Jennie M. Taylor 1840-Unknown 3rd. Emily L. Manzer 1840-1903 No known children 4th. A. C. Andrews 1840-No known children Children of Martha Lois Smith Sanford are: Luna Elizabeth Sanford 1850-Unknown James Francis Sanford 1859-1860 Frederick Manly/Manley Sanford 1861-Unknown John Samuel Sanford 1865-Unknown Stella Smith Sanford 1867-1873 Susie Smith Sanford 1870-1945 Born in Lansing, Minnesota, USA on 11 Sep 1870 Susie Smith married John Herbert Sanborn and had 7 children. She passed away on 19 Aug 1945 in Bellflower, California, USA. Grave note says she passed away in Los Angeles, CA! Found in find a grave ID 122736453 George Doolittle Sanford 1877-Unknown Children of Jennie M Taylor Sanford were: Mattie Lois Sanford 1879-Unknown Born in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, USA on 18 Sep 1879. She passed away in Ravena, Buffalo Co., Nebraska, USA. Next to Kearney City. Minnie Sanford 1881-March, 1970 in Siloam Springs, Benton Co., AR. James Manley Sanford was a Civil War Veteran: Disabled in action at the Battle of Vicksburg. Corp. James Manley Sanford Civil War record. Notes for JAMES MANLY SANFORD: Autobiography of James Manley Sanford. (Dictated to his children from his death bed.) (Completed November 25, 1910.) Born May 2, 1836 near St. Joseph, MI. Died December 7, 1910 at Fairfield, NE. Age 74 years, 7 months and 5 days. (Civil War extraction) - Bil Munsil I enlisted the 11th day of September 1861, in Company B, Eleventh Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry.I served with my regiment in all the early battles of the war, though in 1862 I spent some 6 weeks (Four months?) in the hospital.At the time of the investment of Vicksburg by Grant, I had earned my Corporal's stripes. RECONNOITREING VICKSBURG When General Grant called for 10 volunteers from 70,000 soldiers to reconnoitre Vicksburg, only 8 responded, and they were all from the Eleventh Wisconsin, and 2 of them were from Company B -- myself and one other.Our orders were to go up and find how deep the ditch was outside the rebel works, and as evidence that we had been there to bring back a piece of dirt.We crawled through the rebel picket line, but could not get to the ditch, as it was covered with soldiers working on it.We spent the whole night and had to return without accomplishing our end. The next morning Corporal Cook of Company B and myself started out with a view of finding out what was needed by daylight.After putting in several hours creeping through the brush in the draws we got very near to the rebel works.While trying to discern the depth of the ditch, the rebels fired a full volley on us, wounding Corporal Cook in the arm, and spoiling my chin whiskers by sending a ball through them so as to draw blood. I took Corporal Cook back to the hospital and then went and reported to General Lawler, as he was to be in command of the charging force the next day.He asked me if there was any way I could find the depth of that ditch.I told him yes; he could bring out his troops and set them firing on the rebel works so as to keep the rebels down, and I would go up to a certain patch of brush about ten rods from the ditch. I told him to have the men understand not to shoot me, and I would make a charge on the works and ascertain the depth of that ditch.This I did, and found it only about 3 feet deep.In getting back, I made the run of my life. When I went back and reported, General Lawler wanted me to take the troops that night, as I knew the ground better than anyone else in the command, and escort them to places of safety under cover of the banks of the various ravines.This work I had completed just at dawn of day.This was on the 22nd day of May. When this was done I was told to lie down in the General's tent, and I slept until nearly 10 o'clock in the morning.When I awoke, General Grant, after asking a few further questions as to the lay of the land, told me I had done my share and I could go to the rear.I turned to obey but just then the signal guns were fired for a grand charge, and I turned and ran for the fighting line.Knowing the ground as I did, I was able to catch up with my regiment. My regiment was placed well in the front of the first of the 3 lines of battle, which gave me a splendid view of the field.As I turned and looked to the rear, I could see 100 battle flags sweeping on for a grand charge.As I looked to the front, I could see General Pemberton's whole army, who had left their ditch and were on their way back to Vicksburg.Not 10 rods from me was General Pemberton in all his splendor, calling to his retreating troops, saying: "Go back to your works! There's only one line.We can whip them." CARRIED BACK BY GRAPE SHOT Just at this moment they ran out a forty-eight pound gun about 10 rods away, which was loaded with grape.It fired.One of these grapeshot struck me on the fourth rib on the right side and carried me over one hundred feet to the rear, dropping me into a canyon about 50 feet deep, thus closing my fighting capacities for the day. Had the second and third lines charged that day, it would have ended Vicksburg right there.We had them already beaten.But the rebels were able to drive back the front line, which charged alone, and the long seige of Vicksburg, lasting until July 4, 1863, was the result. At nightfall that day I was put on a stretcher and carried to what was called a hospital, but really was more of a dissecting ranch, where they were sawing off arms and legs and throwing them into a hole.My regimental doctor said to the boys, "Lay him out there on the ground.We can't do anything for him.He'll soon be out of his misery."But I said emphatically, "No!" About 10 o'clock the next day the doctor came to me and said, "Sanford, are you alive?"But I was so choked with blood that I could not speak.He next asked, "Are you going to live?" And I motioned "YES." They then took me under special care on account of the special service I had done the day before.I was put in a tent nearly half a mile from the rest of the troops with a special nurse for night and another for the daytime, with a little Negro boy to keep the flies off me. In a short time I was up and enjoying life.I had a ride on the hospital boat on July 4th to see the city after Pemberton had finally surrendered.Then I went to the New House of Refuge Hospital in St. Louis, where I remained until November, during which time I got well and was allowed to go home and see my family. Grant had promised that the man who did the most to help capture Vicksburg should have a commission, and J. M. Sanford was the first man recommended, but the doctor stepped up and said, "There is no use recommending him.He cannot live."So another man was given the commission. No particular incident now occurred until the army was sent to Texas.An order then came for re-enlistment, with the promise of a silver medal to the company which would re-enlist the most men. Company B of the Eleventh Wisconsin Volunteers was stationed at Powder Horn on Matagorda Bay.The wind blew so strong from the north that for 13 days it had been impossible for them to get a mouthful to eat except oysters gathered from the bay.Yet just at this time this company enlisted all but two men, and won the medal.All members of the company got a thirty days' furlough to go home and see their families. On our return we were kept at Brashear City (Now Morgan City), LA, for nine months to guard the mosquitos or Negroes -- we never knew which.The following spring we went to Blakesley (Fort Blakesley?), Alabama, where the Eleventh Wisconsin had the honor of leading the grand charge, the last charge of the Civil War.This was on the 9th of April, 1865 and Lee had surrendered his army about four hours before. I was mustered out of service September 8, 1865 at Madison, WI, with a lot of other worn out and wounded soldiers. Another source of children: Children of JAMES SANFORD and MARTHA SMITH are: 16. i. LUNA ELIZABETH29 SANFORD, b. June 09, 1857, Lansing, MI; d. Phoenix, Maricopa Co., AZ. ii. JAMES FRANCIS SANFORD, b. March 01, 1859, Lansing, MI, U.S.A.; d. August 03, 1860. iii. FREDERICK MANLY SANFORD, b. December 09, 1861, Lansing, MI, U.S.A.. iv. JOHN SAMUEL SANFORD, b. January 21, 1865, Lansing, MI, U.S.A.. v. STELLA SMITH SANFORD, b. August 15, 1867, Lansing, MI, U.S.A.; d. November 21, 1873. 17. vi. SUSIE SMITH SANFORD, b. September 11, 1870, Lansing, MI, U.S.A.; d. August 19, 1945, Bellflower, California, U.S.A.. Children of JAMES Manley SANFORD and JENNIE TAYLOR are: 18. vii. GEORGE DOOLITTLE SANFORD, b. November 19, 1877, Minden, Kearney Co., NE, U.S.A.; d. Hastings, NE. 19. viii. MATTIE LOIS SANFORD, b. September 18, 1879, Detroit, Wayne Co., Minden, Kearney, NE., U.S.A.; d. Ravena, NE. 20. ix. MINNIE SANFORD, b. October 07, 1881, Minden, Kearney Co., NE., U.S.A.; d. Fairfield, NE. (Not correct locations) http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/s/a/n/Elroy-W-Sanford/GENE5-0003.html Sanford Genealogy extracted from Carlton E. Sanford's book, "Thomas Sanford Emigrant to New England, 1632-1634." James Manley Sanford worked as a surveyor, engineer, farmer, store owner, lumber mill operator, and insurance salesman and owned a insurance brokerage, he retired as a manager for Mutual Insurance of Omaha, NE. He had been a former mayor of Kearney, NE. He wrote an extensive death bed biography dictated to my grandmother Minnie Sanford Congrove.

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Latitude: 40.4094009
Longitude: -98.0982971

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Jennie M Taylor Sanford

(1855 - 1929)

Siblings

Eliza Coan Perry

(1833 - 1916)

Children

Luna Elizabeth Sanford Kellie

(1857 - 1940)

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Coordinate: 40.4094009, -98.0982971

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Coordinate: 40.2703200, -97.9553200

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