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June 19, 1845-August 22, 1922
Black Army soldier who received a Medal of Honor for his action at the Second Battle of Fort Fisher.
He was born June 19, 1845, in Mexico City, but at the beginning of the Civil War was working as a farmer in the state of New York. Enlisted for service in Schenectady, N.Y., on August 21, 1864, as a private in Company K, 142nd New York Volunteer Infantry.
Anderson has the unusual, but not unique distinction of being a black man serving with a white regiment.
On January 15, 1865, he participated in the Union's second attack on Fort Fisher, North Carolina. He and twelve other men answered the call for volunteers to advance ahead of the main attack and cut down the palisade which blocked their path.
--Old B-Runner
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