Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina
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[432] and settled in Greenville county, S. C., where he died in 1837. Of ten children living at the time of John Anderson's death, Major Anderson and his sister are the only ones surviving. Thomas and Nancy Anderson, the grandparents, spent the remainder of their lives in Greenville county, the latter living to be nearly a hundred years old. The mother of Major Anderson was Mary Terry, who survived her husband a great many years, dying at the age of seventy. Four sons of John and Mary Anderson served in the Confederate army: James, John, David and George W. James died in 1863 from sickness contracted in the service; John was captured at the fall of Petersburg and died from the effects of his treatment on the boat while on his way to Charleston to be released; David survived the war and farmed in Alabama until his death in 1896. George W. was educated chiefly at the Cokesbury high school. He taught for one year in Alabama, but began a mercantile business in Laurens county, S. C., in 1851. For several years before the war he was a major in the State militia, commanding the upper squadron of the Tenth regiment of cavalry. In the fall of 1863 he entered the army as a private in Company K, Seventh South Carolina regiment of cavalry, commanded by Col. A. C. Haskell, and served with it to the close of the war. He was in the battles of Drewry's Bluff, and shortly afterward detailed as a courier for Gen. G. T. Beauregard, serving as such for some time, after which he returned to his command, and participated in the battle of the Crater. Major Anderson located in Williamston, S. C., in 1868. As a merchant after the war he was very successful and was able to retire in 1886 with a fine estate. He was married, February 21, 1860, to Miss Nancy Narcissus Nesbitt, who still survives. They have seven living children, four sons and three daughters.

William Anderson, M. D., a leading physician of Cherokee county, and surgeon of the camp of Confederate veterans at Blacksburg, was born in Rutherfordton, N. C., November 14, 1847, the only child of Dr. William Anderson and his wife, Mary Frances Bowen. His father was a native of Lisburn, County Antrim, Ireland, who came to Bivinsville, now Glendale, Spartanburg county, S. C., in 1842, at the age of nineteen years, and after reading medicine under Dr. Bivins, attended lectures at the