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Sanders attended the United States Military Academy at West Point from 1852 to 1856, but was not an outstanding cadet, graduating 41st in his class. West Point Superintendent Robert E. Lee wrote a May 1854 letter announcing Sanders' dismissal, but he managed to avoid dismissal with the help of the U.S. Secretary of War Jefferson Davis.
Don Troiani (born 1949) is an American painter whose work focuses on his native country's military heritage, mostly from the American Revolution, War of 1812 and American Civil War. His highly realistic and historically accurate oil and watercolor works are most well known in the form of marketed mass-produced printed limited-edition ...
Time-Life Books, The Civil War series (27 Volumes) – Researcher, writer, and adviser, 1983-87. Voices of the Civil War series (18 Volumes) – Researcher, writer, and consultant, 1995-98. "An Illustrated History of the Civil War: Images of an American Tragedy" – Co-author, with William J. Miller, 2000.
Touched by Fire: A National Historical Society Photographic Portrait of the Civil War (1985; 2 volumes) Diary of a Confederate Soldier: John S. Jackman of the Orphan Brigade (1990) Civil War Journal: The Battles (1998) with Brian C. Pohanka and Don Troiani; Civil War Journal: The Legacies (1999) with Brian C. Pohanka and Don Troiani
Sanders' Knoxville Raid (June 14–24, 1863) saw 1,500 Union cavalry and mounted infantry led by Colonel William P. Sanders raid East Tennessee before the Knoxville campaign during the American Civil War. The successful raid began at Mount Vernon, Kentucky and moved south, passing near Kingston, Tennessee.
During the Civil War, the Union Army used the hotel as a hospital for its war wounded, among them General William P. Sanders, who died at the hotel in 1863. Following the war, the hotel became the center of Knoxville's Gilded Age extravagance, hosting lavish masquerade balls for the city's elite. [2] [3]
Some troops leave the battlefield injured. Others return from war with mental wounds. Yet many of the 2 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from a condition the Defense Department refuses to acknowledge: Moral injury.
William David Sanders (1951–1999), American teacher and victim of Columbine High School massacre; William Edward Sanders (1883–1917), New Zealand Victoria Cross recipient in World War I; William Joseph Sanders, American vertebrate paleontologist; William P. Sanders (1833–1863), officer in the Union Army in the American Civil War