Battle of Anderson

Not to be confused with the Battle of Fort Anderson (1863).

Battle of Anderson

Belligerents

Casualties and losses

The Battle of Anderson was a minor skirmish during the American Civil War, fought in Anderson County, South Carolina, on May 1, 1865.^[1] The battle was one of the final conflicts of the war, taking place three weeks after Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House.

References

Origins

Origins / Issues	Timeline leading to the War Antebellum era Bleeding Kansas Border states Dred Scott v. Sandford Missouri Compromise Secession States' rights

Slavery	African-Americans Emancipation Proclamation Fugitive slave laws Slave power Uncle Tom's Cabin

Abolitionism	John Brown Frederick Douglass William Lloyd Garrison Lysander Spooner Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad

Combatants

Union (USA)	Army Navy Revenue Cutter Service

Confederacy (CSA)	Army Navy Marine Corps

Theaters

Involvement
by state or territory

Leaders

Confederate

Military	R.H. Anderson Beauregard Bragg Cooper Early Ewell Forrest Gorgas Hill Hood Jackson A.S. Johnston J.E. Johnston Lee Longstreet Morgan Mosby Price Quantrill Semmes E.K. Smith Stuart Taylor Wheeler

Civilian	Benjamin Breckinridge Bocock Davis Mallory Memminger Seddon Stephens

Union

Military	Anderson Buell Butler Burnside Du Pont Farragut Foote Fremont Grant Halleck Hooker Hunt McClellan McDowell Meade Meigs Pope D.D. Porter Rosecrans Scott Sheridan Sherman Thomas

Civilian	Adams Chase Ericsson Lincoln Pinkerton Seward Stanton Stevens Wade Welles

Aftermath

U.S. Constitution	13th Amendment 14th Amendment 15th Amendment

Reconstruction	Alabama Claims Carpetbaggers Freedman's Bank Freedmen's Bureau Jim Crow laws Redeemers Southern Claims Commission

Cemeteries	Confederate memorials and cemeteries National cemeteries U.S. memorials and cemeteries

Veterans	Grand Army of the Republic Old soldiers' homes United Confederate Veterans

Other topics	Ku Klux Klan Lost Cause