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James Patton Anderson

ANDERSON, James Patton, soldier, born in Tennessee about 1820; died in Memphis in 1873. He served in Mexico, commanding Mississippi volunteers, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He afterward settled at Olympia, Washington territory, and sat in the House of Representatives as a delegate from that territory in 1855-'57. He held the rank of Brigadier-General in the confederate army, distinguished himself at Shiloh and Stone river, and was promoted to Major-General 17 February 1864, was assigned to the command of the district of Florida, and subsequently commanded a division in Polk's corps, Army of the Tennessee.

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