Battle of Anderson

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

Battle of Anderson

Date	May 1, 1865
Location	Anderson, South Carolina Coordinates: 34°24′19″N 82°27′07″W / 34.40516°N 82.45207°W / 34.40516; -82.45207
Result	Inconclusive

Belligerents

United States (Union)

CSA (Confederacy)

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

↑ Smith-Miles, Charmaine (29 March 2007). "Civil War brought to life on Anderson County field". The Anderson Independent-Mail. Retrieved 22 January 2011.

External links

Battle of Anderson

American Civil War

Origins

Origins Issues	Timeline leading to the War Antebellum era Bleeding Kansas Border states Compromise of 1850 Dred Scott v. Sandford Missouri Compromise Popular sovereignty Secession States' rights President Lincoln's 75,000 volunteers

Slavery	African Americans Confiscation Act of 1861 Confiscation Act of 1862 Emancipation Proclamation Fugitive slave laws Slave Power Treatment of slaves in the United States Uncle Tom's Cabin

Abolitionism	Susan B. Anthony John Brown Frederick Douglass William Lloyd Garrison Lysander Spooner George Luther Stearns Charles Sumner Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad

Combatants
Theaters
Campaigns
Battles
States

Combatants

Union (USA)	Army Navy Marine Corps Revenue Cutter Service

Confederacy (CSA)	Army Navy Marine Corps

Theaters

Campaigns

Major battles

Involvement (by
state or territory)

Leaders

Confederate

Civilian	Benjamin Bocock Breckinridge Davis Hunter Mallory Memminger Seddon Stephens

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

Union

Civilian	Adams Chase Ericsson Hamlin Lincoln Pinkerton Seward Stanton Stevens Wade Welles

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

Aftermath

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

Reconstruction	Alabama Claims Carpetbaggers Freedman's Savings Bank Freedmen's Bureau Black Codes Ku Klux Klan Redeemers Southern Claims Commission

post-Reconstruction	Disenfranchisement Jim Crow Lost Cause

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

Veterans	Grand Army of the Republic Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Old soldiers' homes United Confederate Veterans

Related topics

Related topics

Military	Balloon Corps Bushwhacker Cavalry Field artillery Medicine Military leadership Naval battles Official Records Signal Corps Turning points

Political	Committee on the Conduct of the War Confederate war finance Copperheads Political General Radical Republicans Trent Affair War Democrats

Other topics	Bibliography Christmas Commemoration Confederate revival Draft Riots Historical reenactment Music Names of the War Native Americans Photographers Rail transport Supreme Court cases U.S. Sanitary Commission

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