Major Robert Anderson collection, 1861.

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Major Robert Anderson collection, 1861.

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Copy of a card with a photograph of Major Robert Anderson and his autograph, signed at Fort Sumter, South Carolina on April 7, 1861 for Carrie Hainland.

Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7249819

Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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Hainland, Carrie.

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Anderson, Robert, 1805-1871

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Anderson was born at "Soldier's Retreat," the Anderson family estate near Louisville, Kentucky. His father, Richard Clough Anderson Sr. (1750–1826), served in the Continental Army as an aide-de-camp to the Marquis de Lafayette during the American Revolutionary War, and was a charter member of the Society of the Cincinnati; his mother, Sarah Marshall (1779–1854), was a cousin of John Marshall, the fourth Chief Justice of the United States. He graduated from the United States Military Academy (Wes...