ANDERSON, Richard Heron "Fightin' Dick"

Affiliation:  Confederate

Born: October 7 1821, Sumter City SC

Died: June 26 1879, Beaufort SC

Pre-War Profession: Graduated West Point 1842, 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 Johnson's Divn at Sayler's Creek.

Post War:  State phosphate agent