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The Daily Dispatch: April 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], Evening session. (search)
about fifty-six years old, and was born in Kentucky, entering the Military Academy from that State, and graduating with distinction, on June 30, 1825. The record of his military service shows that he was promoted to a first Lieutenancy in 1833, and made Captain by brevet in 1833 for gallantry and successful strategy in the war against the Florida Indians. In the same year he was appointed Assistant Adjutant. General, with the rank of Captain — the Captaincy itself not coming until the October of 1841, and his present rank of Major only reaching him last year. "Major Anderson has also performed a large amount of the staff duty incident to the service a few years since, and before it was made distinct from duty in the line. He acted as Assistant Inspector of the Illinois Volunteers, serving with Abraham Lincoln in the Black Hawk War of 1832. He was Assistant Instructor and Instructor of Artillery at the Military Academy, in the years 1835 '6 and' 7, and was aide-de-camp to Major