. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . l regiments from rebel prisoners, known asthe repentant rebel regiments, and mustered out sixteenthousand paroled prisoners at Camp Chase, Ohio. At the conclusion of the war, he was brevetted major,August 1, 1864, for gallant service in the battle of theWilderness; lieutenant-colonel, August 1, 1864, forgallant services in the battle of Spottsylvania. When the army was reorganized in 1866, ColonelAnderson was transferred to the Twenty-first Infantry,and was promoted major, March 26, 1S6S. He was thenordered to Texas, and s
. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . l regiments from rebel prisoners, known asthe repentant rebel regiments, and mustered out sixteenthousand paroled prisoners at Camp Chase, Ohio. At the conclusion of the war, he was brevetted major,August 1, 1864, for gallant service in the battle of theWilderness; lieutenant-colonel, August 1, 1864, forgallant services in the battle of Spottsylvania. When the army was reorganized in 1866, ColonelAnderson was transferred to the Twenty-first Infantry,and was promoted major, March 26, 1S6S. He was thenordered to Texas, and served at Fort Mcintosh and Ring-gold Barracks, from August, 1869, to September, 1872,during which time he acted as attorney for the UnitedStates in the Mexican cattle-claims cases on the Rio 1872 he was ordered to Vicksburg, Mississippi, andwhile there was disbursing officer for the United Statesuntil 1874. In the consolidation of regiments in 1869, ColonelAnderson was unassigned from March 15 to June 24,1869, when he was assigned to the Tenth Infantry, and. was second in command during MacKenzies Kiowacampaign, in 1874. He was in command of Fort Mc-Kavett in 1876, and of the Tenth Infantry in was then ordered on general recruiting service ascommandant of Columbus Barracks, Ohio, where heremained until October, 1880. Having been promoted lieutenant-colonel of the NinthInfantry, March 20, 1879, he joined that regiment inNebraska, and was in command of it from February, 1882,to June, 1883, at which time he was ordered to Fort Mc-Kinney, Wyoming, serving at that post, as well as atForts Russell and Bridger, to 1885. He was then orderedin command of a battalion of the Ninth Infantry to Cris-field, Kansas, in the summer of 1885, at a prospectiveoutbreak of Indians in the Indian Territory. ColonelAnderson was also on an expedition, sent to Evanston,Union Pacific Railroad, to protect Chinamen, duringSeptember and October of that year. He was promoted colonel of th
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