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Mona,
Sanders Mills is listed as Saunders Miles in military records of the National Archives. He served in Captain Reynolds' Company which was apart of Colonel Thomas Benton's Regiment.
http://tennessee.gov/tsla/history/military/1812reg.htm
COLONEL THOMAS BENTON
• DESIGNATION: 2nd Regiment of Tennessee Volunteer Infantry
• DATES: December 1812 - April 1813
• MEN MOSTLY FROM: Williamson, Rutherford, White, Bedford, Davidson, Franklin, Lincoln, and Maury Counties
• CAPTAINS: Robert Cannon, George Caperton, George Gibbs, Benjamin Hewett, James McEwen, James McFerrin, William Moore, Isiah Renshaw, Benjamin Reynolds, William J. Smith, Thomas Williamson
BRIEF HISTORY:
This regiment, along with Colonel William Hall's First Regiment of Tennessee Volunteer Infantry and Colonel John Coffee's Volunteer Cavalry, comprised the army under Andrew Jackson that undertook the expedition to Natchez in late 1812. Many of these men re-enlisted in September 1813 and were then put under the command of Colonel William Pillow, maintaining the same designation of the Second Regiment of Tennessee Volunteer Infantry. See the entry under Colonel William Pillow for further information.
His service record is located in roll box 144, roll record 29199 at the National Archives.
I did not see either Sanders or Drucilla listed in the Pension Lists of 1818 or 1835. The pension numbers are very low and it seems that she received an Old War Pension which where given to soldiers who were wounded or to the heirs of those soldiers who were killed.
Also he may have had land bounties issued to him since these were issued during the mid-1850's.
I hope this helps you,
Eric Johnson
General Society of the War of 1812
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