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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Autobiography of Gen. Patton Anderson C. S. A. (search)
Autobiography of Gen. Patton Anderson, C. S. A.
[Transcribed by Mrs. Anderson and kindly furnished by her for publication, through Rev. H. A. Brown, Saxe, Va.—Ed.]
I was born in Winchester, Franklin county, Tennessee, on the 16th day of February, 1822.
My father, William Preston Anderson, was a native of Botetourt county, Virginia, and was born about the year 1775.
During the second term of General Washington's administration he received from the President a commission of lieutenant in the United States army.
About this time, or soon after, he removed to Tennessee, and at one time was United States district attorney for the——judicial district, and was subsequently surveyor-general of the district of Tennessee.
In the year of 1812 he was colonel in the 24th United States infantry and was accidentally with Colonel Crogan in his defense of Fort Harrison.
During this war he married my mother (Margaret L. Adair), who was the fifth daughter of Major-General John Adair, of Merc<