Record #:

17988

Author(s):

Lawrence, R.C.

Abstract:

Saunders was a lawyer, soldier, editor, North Carolina Secretary of State, and historian. During the Civil War he was Colonel of the Forty-Sixth North Carolina Regiment. He was wounded three times at Fredericksburg and suffered a near-fatal wound at the Battle of the Wilderness. His greatest contribution to the state was his copying, organizing, and overseeing the publishing of the ten volumes of the Colonial Records of North Carolina.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 8 Issue 2, June 1940, p5, 17

Subject(s):

Saunders, William Lawrence, 1835-1891