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Robert Anderson (June 14, 1805 – October 26, 1871) was a United States Army officer during the American Civil War.He was the Union commander in the first battle of the American Civil War at Fort Sumter in April 1861 when the Confederates bombarded the fort and forced its surrender, starting the war.
Robert Anderson (Union officer) (1805–1871), Union commander at Fort Sumter at the start of the American Civil War; Robert H. Anderson (Confederate officer) (1835–1888), Confederate officer (brigadier general) in the American Civil War; Robert Anderson (Medal of Honor) (1843–1900), U.S. Navy sailor and Medal of Honor recipient
Anderson, now a major general, returned to Sumter with the flag he had been forced to lower four years earlier, and on April 14, 1865, raised it in triumph over the ruined fort. Henry Ward Beecher was present and subsequently spoke at length about the occasion.
The U.S. Post Office Department released the Fort Sumter Centennial issue as the first in the series of five stamps marking the Civil War Centennial on April 12, 1961, at the Charleston post office. [73] The stamp was designed by Charles R. Chickering. It illustrates a seacoast gun from Fort Sumter aimed by an officer in a typical uniform of ...
Richard Heron Anderson (October 7, 1821 – June 26, 1879) was a career U.S. Army officer, fighting with distinction in the Mexican–American War.He also served as a Confederate general during the American Civil War, fighting in the Eastern Theater of the conflict and most notably during the 1864 Battle of Spotsylvania Court House.
General Anderson went on board precisely at noon, having with him a letter-bag bearing the inscription "Major–General Anderson, Fort Sumter, April 14, 1865," and also a box containing the old flag of Fort Sumter. It is intended that the flag shall be raised by Sargeant Peter Hart, who run [sic] up the Stars and Stripes on a temporary flag ...
Early on the morning of April 12, negotiations with Anderson had failed. Beauregard ordered the first shots of the American Civil War to be fired from nearby Fort Johnson. The bombardment of Fort Sumter lasted for 34 hours. After a heavy bombardment from batteries ringing the harbor, Anderson surrendered Fort Sumter on April 14.
When the new garrison commander, Major Robert Anderson, sent Captain J. G. Foster to get 100 muskets for the workmen of Castle Pinckney and Fort Sumter, he was flatly refused by Colonel B. H. Huger who cited that special orders from Washington would be necessary. [3] Maj. Robert Anderson, photo by Mathew Brady