Richard H. Anderson

Richard Heron Anderson ( October 7, 1821 in Hillcrest near Stateburg in Sumter County, South Carolina, † June 26, 1879 in Beaufort, South Carolina) was until 1861 an officer of the U.S. Army, General in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, and staff the State of South Carolina.

Life

Anderson attended the Military Academy at West Point, he became the 40th in his class graduated in 1842 with the rank of lieutenant. He then served as at the 1st U.S. Dragoons, and in the Mexican War, after which he was promoted to first lieutenant. On 3 March 1861, he resigned from the U.S. Army and took over as commander of the 1st Regiment South Carolina Infantryregiment.

After the capture of Fort Sumter he was given command of the Port of Charleston. On July 19, 1861, he was promoted to brigadier general and transferred to Pensacola, Florida, where he was wounded at Fort Pickens in combat. After his recovery, he fought with his troops on 5 May 1862 in the Battle of Williamsburg, on 31 May and 1 June 1862 in the Battle of Seven Pines and in the seven-day battle from June 25 to July 1, 1862. Williamsburg since he took command of the Division, Major General James Longstreet. For his merits and achievements, he was promoted on July 14, 1862 Major General and was given command of the second division of Longstreet's corps.

At the Second Battle of Bull Run on 28 and 30 August 1862 he attacked the Union troops broke through their lines and forced them to dodge. Six weeks later, at the Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862, he was wounded in the thigh. The next battles in which he participated were the Battle of Fredericksburg on December 11 to 15 1862, the Battle of Chancellorsville on 2 and May 5, 1863 At the Battle of Gettysburg from 1 -. Was July 3, 1863 the Division of Anderson, the third in the line of scrimmage.

The next spring, at the Battle of the Wilderness on May 5 to 6 1864 Longstreet was wounded and Anderson took over the command of the First Corps and led it during the overland campaign. On May 31, 1864 promoted to lieutenant general and recover back as Long Street in October, Anderson led the newly created IV Corps during the siege of Petersburg and the Appomattox campaign, where he surrendered at Appomattox Court House in April 1865.

After the war, Anderson became state agent of the phosphate industry in South Carolina. He died in 1879 in Beaufort and was buried in the St. Helena Episcopal Curchyard.

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