{"id":732,"date":"2010-06-10T01:07:58","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T05:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/?p=732"},"modified":"2010-06-13T19:03:06","modified_gmt":"2010-06-13T23:03:06","slug":"descendants%e2%80%99-profiles-%e2%80%93-alisha-sanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/2010\/06\/10\/descendants%e2%80%99-profiles-%e2%80%93-alisha-sanders\/","title":{"rendered":"Descendants\u2019 Profiles \u2013 Alisha Sanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_733\" style=\"width: 234px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/sanders1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-733\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-733 \" title=\"Alisha Sanders\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/sanders1-280x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/sanders1-280x300.jpg 280w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/sanders1.jpg 626w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-733\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alisha Sanders<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This profile was published in \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/USCT_Supplement.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Grand Review Times: A Call for the Descendants of USCT Troops from Camp William Penn 1863 to the Harrisburg Grand Review, 1865<\/a>,\u201d a supplement that appeared in the March 22, 2010 issue of <em>ShowcaseNow! Magazine<\/em>. \u201c\u201cGrand Review Times\u201d is avalible for download as a PDF file here. (<a href=\"http:\/\/get.adobe.com\/reader\/\" target=\"_blank\">Adobe Reader<\/a> must be installed on your computer in order to read this document.)<\/p>\n<p>Alisha Sanders was born in Gettysburg and grew up there developing an interest in genealogy when she was in the ninth grade.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the time,\u201d she said recently from her home telephone, \u201cGettysburg College was offering a special program with my high school and I enrolled. \u201cAnd I have been bitten by the history bug ever since,\u201d she confesses.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Saunders\u2019 great-great grandfather William H. Matthews was a son of Edward Matthews, a known Underground Railroad operator. William lied about his age, she tells in recalling the story of his life, and enlisted with Company I of the 127th Pennsylvania in September, 1864. It is assumed he signed up for the Army at Camp William Penn in Philadelphia. He was mustered out at Bravos Santiago, Texas on September 8, 1865.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Matthews family lived in the Yellow Hill community near Gettysburg, Ms. Saunders said, and \u201cwe know from Edward\u2019s pension records that he suffered from pulmonary disease.\u201d He was with the Army of the James, she said, at Deep Bottom, Virginia, among other places. Two of his brothers, she added, Samuel and Nelson F., also served as members of USCT corps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This profile was published in \u201cGrand Review Times: A Call for the Descendants of USCT Troops from Camp William Penn 1863 to the Harrisburg Grand Review, 1865,\u201d a supplement that appeared in the March 22, 2010 issue of ShowcaseNow! Magazine. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/2010\/06\/10\/descendants%e2%80%99-profiles-%e2%80%93-alisha-sanders\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grand-review-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":767,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions\/767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}