The Biographical Dictionary of America/Anderson, George B.

ANDERSON, George B., soldier, was born in Wilmington, N. C., Nov. 6, 1830. He received an appointment as cadet to the military academy and was graduated with the class of 1852 as brevet 2d lieutenant in the 2d dragoons. In 1855 he received his promotion as lieutenant, and in 1858 as adjutant. He remained in the army until the breaking out of the civil war, when he resigned to enter the Confederate service. He was there rapidly advanced to the rank of brigadier-general and directed the coast defences of North Carolina. At the battle of Antietam he received a wound, from the effects of which he died Oct. 16, 1862.