Maj. Gen. Richard Heron Anderson

Born:  October 7, 1821 Sumter Cty South Carolina

Died:  June 26, 1879 Beaufort South Carolina

Buried:  Saint Helena's Episcopal Churchyard Beaufort, Beaufort County, South Carolin

Pre-War Profession Graduated West Point 1842 (40th), 2nd Dragoons, Mexican War, resigned December 1860. War Service March 1861 Col. of 1st South Carolina, Fort Sumter, commanded at Charleston, July 1862 Brig. Gen., Pensacola, commanded Longstreet's Divn at Seven Pines, commanded Anderson's Bde/Longstreet's Divn in Seven Days, Maj. Gen. July 1862, commanded Anderson's Divn/Longstreet's Corps at Second Manassas, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Wilderness, commanded II Corps at Spotsylvania, May 1864 Lt. Gen., Cold Harbor, commanded Bushrod Johnsons Divn at Sayler's Creek. Civil War Confederate Lieutenant General. Veteran of the Mexican War, Succeeded command of Charleston when General Beauregard went to Virginia, Brigade Commander in Longstreet's Division on the Peninsula and later in the Army of Northern Virginia. Post War Career State phosphate agent