John K. Anderson

A 25 year old militia officer in Fredericksburg, he was commissioned First Lieutenant, Company A, 30th Virginia Infantry on 22 April 1861.

He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was promoted to Captain on 28 March 1863. He was wounded again, in the side at Drewery's Bluff, VA on 16 May 1864. He was treated for pneumonia at Chimborazo Hospital, Richmond, VA in January 1865 and paroled in Richmond on 20 April 1865.

He was in various businesses in Fredericksburg, and was a salesman for a grocery and liquor wholesaler at the time of his death.

Service and other details from Robert K. Krick's 30th Virginia Infantry (1983) via the Historical Data Systems database. His gravesite is on Findagrave, source of personal details from his obituary in the Fredericksburg Free-Lance of 23 August 1892.

02/15/1836; Fredericksburg, VA

08/21/1892; Montague, VA; burial in Hundley Family Cemetery at Rose Hill, Center Cross, VA