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The Daily Dispatch: January 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], The clerical suicide. (search)
Major Anderson. We saw it stated the other day, in the Fredericksburg Recorder, that this officer was a native of Buckingham county, in this State. This is a mistake. Our friend of the Recorder has confounded him with another Major Anderson, who is a native of Buckingham, and who is well known in this city. The latter served with great gallantry in the Mexican war, and was engaged, we believe, in all the battles from Vera Cruz to the city of Mexico. He is a relation of the other, and is, like him, a graduate of West Point. Major Anderson, of Fort Sumter, is a native of Kentucky. He is the son of Captain Richard Clough Anderson, of the revolutionary army, who was born in Hanover county, and lived there until about the year 1790, when he removed to Kentucky. Richard Clough Anderson joined Washington's army at the very commencement of that great officer's career as commander-in-Chief. He was at the battle of Brooklyn, in the retreat through the Jerseys, and commanded the