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Nicholas Longworth Anderson

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Nicholas Longworth Anderson
Nicholas Longworth Anderson
Born(1838-04-22)April 22, 1838
Cincinnati,Ohio
DiedSeptember 18, 1892(1892-09-18)(aged 54)
Lucerne,Switzerland
Place of burial
Spring Grove Cemetery,Cincinnati, Ohio
AllegianceUnited States
Service/ branchUnited States Army
Union Army
Years of service1861–1865
RankColonel
BrevetMajor General
Commands6th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Battles / wars

Nicholas Longworth Anderson(April 22, 1838 – September 18, 1892) was aUnited States Armyofficerwho served in theAmerican Civil WarasColonelof the6th Ohio Volunteer Infantry.After the Civil War, he was nominated and confirmed for appointment to thebrevetgrades ofbrigadier generalandmajor generalof volunteers.

Biography

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Anderson graduated fromHarvard Collegein 1858 and traveled inEurope,spending about two years in study at the German universities.[1]He returned toCincinnatiand was studying law when the war began.

Anderson volunteered as aprivatein theUnion Army,but soon was promoted to 1st lieutenant in the6th Ohio Volunteer Infantryon May 12, 1861, and to lieutenant colonel on June 21 of the same year.

He was promoted to colonel in command of the regiment on November 9, 1862. He served inwestern Virginiaand in most of the major campaigns in theWestern Theater.Severely wounded twice, he mustered out of the service with the regiment on June 23, 1864.

On December 18, 1867,PresidentAndrew Johnsonnominated Anderson to receive a brevet (honorary promotion) to the rank ofbrigadier generalof Volunteers to rank from March 13, 1865, for "gallant conduct and meritorious services in thebattle of Stone's River,December 31, 1862 "and the U.S. Senate confirmed the brevet on February 14, 1868.[2][3]On December 19, 1867, President Johnson nominated Anderson for the award of the grade of brevetmajor generalof U.S. volunteers, also to rank from March 13, 1865, for "distinguished gallantry and meritorious conduct in thebattle of Chickamauga,September 19 and 20, 1863 "and the U.S. Senate confirmed this brevet, also on February 14, 1868.[3][4]

Post war

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General Anderson was a veteran companion of theMilitary Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States(MOLLUS). His son,Larz AndersonIII, became an hereditary member of MOLLUS. Both father and son were also members of theSons of the Revolution.

In 1890 he was elected to membership in the MarylandSociety of the Cincinnatiby right of being the grandson of Lieutenant Colonel Richard Clough Anderson, a Virginia native who served in the American Revolution. His "seat" in the society was "inherited" by his son Larz, who was elected to membership in the Maryland Society in 1894. By tradition, members of the Society of the Cincinnati join the society of the state from which their ancestor served. Although Richard Clough Anderson served from Virginia, Nicholas Longworth Anderson joined the Maryland Society probably because the Virginia society was unwilling to admit a former Union officer.

Following the death of his father, Anderson spent much of the remainder of his days managing the estate he had inherited from his mother. Anderson died inLucerne, Switzerlandat age fifty-four on September 18, 1892, and is buried inSpring Grove Cemeteryin Cincinnati.[5]

Relatives

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Nicholas Longworth Anderson, son of Larz Anderson I and Catherine (Longworth) Anderson, was the scion of two distinguishedOhiofamilies. Through his mother, he was the grandson ofNicholas Longworth,founder of theLongworth family.[6]On his father's side, Nicholas Longworth Anderson was the grandson of Revolutionary War veteran,Richard Clough Anderson Sr.and the nephew of three notable uncles:

His cousinAllen Latham Andersonattained the rank of Brevet Brigadier General. Another cousin,Thomas McArthur Anderson,was a brigadier general who fought in theSpanish–American Warand thePhilippine–American War.

Wife and children

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Nicholas Longworth Anderson married Elizabeth Coles Kilgour. Their sonLarz Anderson IIIand daughter Elizabeth Kilgour Anderson were born while the couple was residing inParis.

Larz served as Second Secretary to the U.S. Embassy in London underRobert Todd Lincolnand then First Secretary at the U.S. Embassy in Rome. He briefly served as a captain in the Volunteer Army during the Spanish–American War. He was appointed as U.S. Minister to Belgium from 1911–1912, and finally served briefly as Ambassador toJapanfrom 1912 to 1913 before retiring from public service. In 1897, Larz marriedIsabel Weld Perkinswho later edited and publishedThe Letters and Journals of General Nicholas Longworth Anderson: Harvard, Civil War, Washington, 1854–1892.Larz and Isabel also created theAnderson Memorial BridgeinCambridge, Massachusetts,and dedicated it to his memory.

In 1899, Elizabeth, known to friends and family as "Elsie," married Philip Hamilton McMillan of Detroit, a Yale and Harvard educated attorney who was the son of SenatorJames McMillanof Michigan. After her husband's death in 1919, Elsie established The Philip Hamilton McMillan Memorial Publication Fund atYale Universitythrough a bequest of $100,000. The Fund continues to operate under the aegis ofYale University Press.

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^Wikisource"Anderson, Nicholas Longworth".The Biographical Dictionary of America.Vol. 1. 1906. p. 111.
  2. ^Eicher, John H., andDavid J. Eicher,Civil War High Commands.Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001.ISBN0-8047-3641-3.p. 739
  3. ^abHunt, Roger D. and Jack R. Brown,Brevet Brigadier Generals in Blue.Gaithersburg, MD: Olde Soldier Books, Inc., 1990.ISBN1-56013-002-4.p. 15
  4. ^Eicher, 2001, p. 710
  5. ^"Judge Civil War Generals"(PDF).The Spring Grove Family.RetrievedJuly 17,2014.
  6. ^Anderson, William Pope.Anderson Family Records.Cincinnati: Press of W.F. Schaefer, 1936.

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