I suspect Moses Sanders, also of Company B, was related.

April 27, 1863

N Sanders & Moses Sanders

Enlisted as Privates:
"B" Co. AL 13th P Rangers Cavalry
Organized: on 8/28/62 Mustered Out: 6/8/63

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N. Sanders, Private, Company B, 13th Battalion, Alabama Partisan Rangers, enlisted March 1, 1862 at Columbus, Miss. for 3 years, last recorded present April 30, 1863 where they were located at Aberdeen, Miss., no further records

The 13th Battalion Alabama Partisan Rangers (also known as the 13th Battalion Alabama Cavalry) was organized about September 6, 2862, with four companies. This company was consolidated with the 15th Battalion Alabama Partisan Rangers on June 8, 1863 to form the regiment subsequently known as the 56th Regiment Alabama Partisan Rangers

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Moses Sanders, Private, Company B, 13th Battalion, Alabama Partisan Rangers, enlisted September 6, 1862 at Jasper, Ala. for 3 years, last recorded present April 30, 1863, no further records

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N. T. Sanders, Private, Company F, 1st Regiment Alabama Partisan Rangers, enlisted September 6 1862 at Japer, Ala. by May. Hewlett for 3 years or the war, recorded October 31, 1863 as absent, on picket at Bambridge Ferry, no further records

Company F was stationed at Town Creek, Ala. on October 31, 1863. There are no subsequent surviving Company muster rolls which precludes knowledge of his later service
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Moses Sanders, Private, Company F, 1st Regiment Alabama Partisan Rangers, enlisted September 6 1862 at Japer, Ala. by May. Hewlett for 3 years or the war, recorded October 31, 1863 as absent, on picket at Bambridge Ferry, no further records

The 56th Regiment Alabama Partisan Rangers was formed June 8, 1863 by the consolidation of five companies of the 13th Battalion Alabama Partisan Rangers with the 15th Battalion Alabama Partisan Rangers. The regiment was also known as the 1st and as Boyle's Regiment Alabama Cavalry

M311: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama

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See also:

http://www.geocities.ws/coh41/13thBtlnAlParRgrs.html

13th Alabama Cavalry Battalion [Partisan Rangers]
>
> The 13th Battalion had been organized with six companies on 28 August
> 1862. It was assigned to the Dept. of Mississippi and East Louisiana
> (December 1862-June 1863) and first served as scouts and pickets. With
> about 250 men, it fought at the battle of King's Creek under Gen'l
> Daniel Ruggles.
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/ALWALKER/2009-05/1242875203

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THE FIFTY SIXTH ALABAMA CAVALRY

The Fifty-sixth regiment of mounted infantry, known as
Partisan Rangers, was organized in the summer of 1863, by the
union of Hewlett's and Boyles' battalions of cavalry, both of
which had done good service in the army of the Gulf as scouts
and pickets, and had fought gallantly at King's Creek and
other points in Mississippi.

Attached to Ferguson's brigade, the regiment was sent to north
Georgia and did arduous duty in the many battles of the
Dalton-Atlanta campaign. After going with Hood into
Tennessee, it turned and harassed Sherman on his march.

It was in the trenches at Savannah and operated near Augusta,
moved into the Carolinas and finally surrendered at
Greensboro, 200 strong.

Colonel Boyles was at one time in command of Ferguson's
brigade, and Lieut.-Col. William Martin took command of the
regiment. Capt. Wm. McGill was killed near Decatur, and Capt.
Thomas D. Hall was wounded near Kingston.

Source: Confederate Military History, vol. VIII, p. 285

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The following is all that I found in the Official Records re the Battalion at the time.

O.R.-- SERIES I--VOLUME XXIV/3 [S# 38]

Correspondence, Orders, And Returns Relating To Operations In Mississippi And West Tennessee (And Those In Arkansas And Louisiana Connected With The Siege Of Vicksburg) From January 20 To August 10, 1863.

Organization of the troops in the Department of Mississippi and Eastern Louisiana, Lieut. Gen. John C. Pemberton, C. S. Army, commanding, January 31, 1863.

FIRST MILITARY DISTRICT.(*)
Brig. Gen. DANIEL RUGGLES.

13th Alabama Battalion, Partisan Rangers, Maj. W. A. Hewlett.

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CHATTANOOGA, February 17, 1863.
Lieutenant-General PEMBERTON:

Major [W. A.] Hewlett, commanding Thirteenth Battalion Partisan Rangers, at Columbus, Miss., has been ordered to you for duty, by command of General Johnston.

BENJ. S. EWELL,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

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COLUMBUS, MISS., April 6, 1863.
Maj. W. A. HEWLETT,

Comdg. Thirteenth Battalion Alabama Partisan Rangers:

MAJOR: I am instructed by the brigadier-general commanding to direct you to hold the effective force of your battalion in readiness for immediate service. You will provide 50 rounds of cartridges per man, and purchase supplies along the route of march. Your command will move without camp equipage or wagons, using pack-mules so far as may be practicable. You will leave your camp at or near the Buttahatchie Bridge under charge of the sick and convalescents.

All unserviceable horses will be herded and grazed at that point under suitable herdsmen.

You will immediately report the effective strength of your battalion, when written instructions will be given you to govern you in the service contemplated.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

R. M. HOOE,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

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COLUMBUS, April 6, 1863.
Lieut. Col. C. R. BARTEAU, Comdg., &c., Verona, Miss.:

SIR: I am instructed by the brigadier-general commanding the district to direct you to proceed with your regiment of cavalry without delay to Fulton, Miss, and there communicate with Major Hewlett, and co-operate with him in a movement to harass the enemy's rear while he is making a raid from Corinth in the Tennessee Valley. You will leave your camp equipage and heavy baggage either at Verona or at Fulton, under a guard of invalids, moving light, without wagons, using pack-mules so far as you may find it practicable to do so. Promptitude and celerity are enjoined. Instructions will be sent you at Fulton.

Acknowledge receipt. Report effective strength and time of marching.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

L. D. SANDIDGE,
Acting Assistant Adjutant and Inspector General.

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No. 4--Report of Brig. Gen. Daniel Ruggles, C. S. Array, commanding First District.

SIR I have the honor to state, for the information of the lieutenant-general commanding that being informed by Brigadier-General [S. A. M.] Wood, from Florence, Ala., that a raid of the enemy was about to be made from Corinth up the valley of the Tennessee River, and requested to harass his movements in every possible way, I, on the 7th ultimo, gave orders for a portion of my troops to be in readiness to march into the Bear Creek country, on the line of the enemy's movement. Information received soon afterward induced the belief that the enemy's force at Corinth and neighboring stations was being greatly reduced, and, to be able to strike him the more effectually upon his base of operations, should opportunity invite, only a scouting party was sent to Bear Creek, and two sections (four guns) of [J. A.] Owens' light battery was ordered from Columbus to Aberdeen on the 13th, and sent thence with the Second Alabama Cavalry Regiment to Town Creek, 9 miles east of Okolona. Taking the field at the same time, and proceeding to Verona, I soon ascertained that a large force of the enemy was going through Corinth in the direction of Northern Alabama without reducing his strength at Corinth, and that a considerable force was also accumulating at La Grange and other places west of Corinth. Believing it my special duty to protect, so far as I could, the rich country along the line of the Mississippi and Ohio Railroad, and the road itself, I deemed it unsafe to move so far to the north and east as would have been necessary to enable me to harass the enemy on his march toward Northern Alabama, and contented myself by requesting General Gholson to send 100 of the best men from his State troops to break up the Memphis and Cincinnati Railroad between Grand Junction and Corinth.

Having visited all my troops, as well as the State troops, at Chesterville, established lines of communication, and put everything in the best possible state of readiness for whatever might occur, I returned toward Columbus; but when within 14 miles of that place, on the 20th, was informed that a force of the enemy, rated at from fifteen hundred to as many thousand men, with artillery, was at Pontotoc. The most active measures were taken to resist his progress by the concentration of all my mounted troops to the west of the railroad. Capt. L. D. Sandidge, assistant adjutant and inspector general, with two guns upon platform cars, and Colonel [Thomas A.] Burgin, with a part of the State troops at Columbus, were sent to reconnoiter the road and to protect the railroad bridges across the Tibbee and Noxubee, and the public stores at Macon; and Brigadier General [John V.] Harris was instructed to order all the militia at and in the vicinity of Macon to unite with them, and to invite the citizens generally along the railroad line to organize for the defense of the towns and railroad bridges. The rapid progress of the enemy from Pontotoc by way of Houston led me to suppose that the first and principal purpose was to destroy our railroad communication by [)urn ing the bridges over the Tibbee and Noxubee, and it was not until he had been thwarted in this, and was retreating northward after the attack upon him at Palo Alto, did I learn that whilst we were confronting the enemy at one point, another column, marching to the westward, had proceeded to the Southern Railroad, between Meridian and Jackson.

This information was obtained by me at West Point, about 5 p.m. the 24th. At 6 p.m. a dispatch was received from Major [W. A.] Hewlett, then at Aberdeen, that 1,500 of the enemy's forces were between Okolona and Aberdeen, threatening an immediate attack upon the latter place.

Colonel [J. W.] Rogers, with the Ninth Arkansas Infantry, was sent to Prairie Station, 8 miles from Aberdeen, with instructions to make a forced march that night for its relief. This report, though so positively given, was without foundation, producing, however, much disquietude for a time, as did the report received, at 8 p.m. on the 25th, from Lieut. J.P. Shaw, at Macon, that, from reliable source, Bankston Factory was burned by a large force of Federals that morning, said to be 20,000 infantry and 6,000 cavalry, making their way to Southern road, via Louisville and Kosciusko. And which on investigation proved equally false.

The retreat of the enemy from Palo Alto, the pursuit and attack upon him at Birmingham, with other matters of interest, is so clearly stated in the report of Lieutenant-Colonel [C. R.] Barteau, herewith sent,(*) that I specially commend it to your attention. Instructed by the lieutenant-general that it would be inexcusable to allow the enemy to escape this way from the Southern Railroad, scouting parties were sent in that direction, and orders given, on the 25th, stationing all my mounted troops so as to intercept him, but his movement to another quarter relieving us from the expected return this way, my command was ordered to positions guarding the country against enemy on the north, at which they had not arrived when another raid of the enemy approached from the direction of New Albany.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

DANIEL RUGGLES,
Brigadier-General, Commanding District.

Maj. R. W. MEMMINGER,
Assistant Adjutant-General

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MAY 5, 1863.--Action at King's Creek, near Tupelo, Miss.
No. 3.--Report of Maj. W. A. Hewlett, Thirteenth Alabama Battalion, Partisan Rangers.

OKOLONA, MISS., May 7, 1863.

CAPTAIN: I have the honor to state, for the information of the brigadier-general commanding First District, Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana, that on Thursday, May 5, at about 11 a.m., while encamped about 4 miles west of Verona, I received orders to proceed at once to Verona, intelligence having been received that the enemy had driven in Major [W. M.] Inge's pickets in the neighborhood of Tupelo. On my arrival at Verona, the column moved toward Tupelo, Colonel [J.] Cunningham in front. My command, which consisted of detachments of four companies (about 140 in all), constituted the left wing. The enemy's pickets were driven in about 1 mile from the scene of action. In the neighborhood of King's Creek, one-half mile west of Tupelo, while my command was crossing a large corn-field, Colonel Cunningham drove in the enemy's advance guard, and immediately crossed the creek and proceeded into the heavy timber on the opposite side. My command followed with as little delay as possible, considering the difficulty of fording, and proceeded into the wood about 100 yards in the rear of Colonel Cunningham. Colonel Cunningham pushed on in pursuit of the enemy's advance guard, without drawing the fire of his main body, which was in ambush. On reaching a ridge about 100 yards from the creek, I first received the fire from the enemy's left wing, at a distance of from 25 to 40 yards. I returned the fire and dismounted my right wing. Several of the horses of my left becoming unmanageable, they faltered. The enemy raised a yell and attempted a charge, but were held in check by my right wing.

At this time Lieutenant-Colonel [C. R.]Barteau came to my assistance on the right; poured a volley into the enemy, driving him back about 200 yards, to a more advantageous position. The firing then commenced from their whole line, with three pieces of artillery, two making a cross fire from each wing and one from the center. It is said by those at a distance they fired 40 rounds from each gun. Just before the firing ceased, Colonel Barteau informed me that two regiments were attempting a flank movement on the left, and ordered me to recross the creek and form on the opposite side, which I did under a heavy fire. I was here joined by two rear companies of the Second Alabama, which were cut off. After crossing the creek, the firing ceased along the whole line, and Colonel Barteau came out a few minutes afterward. I then moved with Colonel Barteau's command to Chesterville, 1 miles west of Tupelo, and continued driving in the enemy's pickets and skirmishing until night.

My loss is 1 killed, 3 wounded, and 2 missing. I also lost 12 horses Without attaching too much importance to the affair, I consider it my duty to mention Capt. Jacob R. Shepherd, First Lieut. Samuel P. Morrow, and First Lieut H. H. Bibb as worthy of praise for gallant and meritorious conduct.

I am, captain, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

W. A. HEWLETT,
Major, Commanding.

Capt. L. D. SANDIDGE,
Acting Assistant Adjutant and Inspector General.
OR S1 V24 Pt 1, pp. 691/2