Major Anderson, late commandant of Fort Sumter Charleston Harbour [engraving]

Major Anderson, late commandant of Fort Sumter Charleston Harbour [engraving]

London The Illustrated London News May 11, 1861

1 print ; on sheet 39 x 27 cm.

P&E L1994.1.464

Full figure, in uniform, standing to the right. His left arm rests on the wall of the fort. He holds his hat in his right hand which is at his side.
This is page 434 from the Illustrated London News. On the reverse is a brief biography of Robert Anderson and his heroic service at Ft. Sumter during the Civil War.
Robert Anderson was made an honorary member of the Society of the Cincinnati by the state of New York in 1862 and was a great-uncle of Larz Anderson of Anderson House.

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