Letters to L.M. Flournoy, 1853-1864.

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Letters to L.M. Flournoy, 1853-1864.

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Collection contains 7 letters from Robert Anderson and 2 letters from his wife Eliza B. Anderson to L.M. Flournoy of Paducah, Kentucky. Generally, Anderson discusses his personal finances with Flournoy, a prominent banker. Anderson also describes his wife's illness and the condition of his children. Two letters from Eliza Anderson, one from 1864 and another undated, discuss her husband's sickness and their planned departure for Germany. Although Anderson is most famous for his defense of Ft. Sumter at the onset of the Civil War, there is no mention of that episode in these letters. Most letters are addressed from Trenton, New Jersey.

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Flournoy, Lafayette Montgomery.

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Anderson, Eliza Bayard.

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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...