| Summary: | (Uniform indicates rank of brigadier general.) Mexican War veteran. Commissioned as a colonel in the 11th Georgia Infantry at the outbreak of war. Promoted to brigadier general in November 1862. Major campaigns and battles include Seven Days', Second Manassas (wounded), Antietam, Gettysburg (wounded), the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, and Appomattox. After the war, Anderson served as chief of police for Atlanta and later moved to Alabama, where he died in April 1901. He is buried in Anniston, Alabama. Sources: Boatner, Mark M. The Civil War Dictionary. New York: Vintage Books, 1988. Davis, William C., ed. The Confederate General. Vol. I. National Historical Society, 1991.
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