Andrew Logan Anderson

He emigrated to the town of Sydney Mines, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia with his parents as a small child but in 1860 he was a 29 year old miner living in Foster Township, Schuykill County, PA. He enlisted and mustered in Pottsville, PA on 1 October 1861 as a Sergeant in Company K, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry.

Colonel Cake wrote of him at Crampton's Gap on 14 September 1862:

Sergeant Anderson, of Company K, shot the color-bearer of the Sixteenth Georgia, but did not stop to secure the colors, which were secured by some of our forces afterward.

He was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant to date from 22 August 1862. He was dismissed by order of a General Court Martial on 23 February 1864 for "drunkenness on duty and conduct prejudicial to good order and military discipline."

He was living in Canada when he applied for a veteran's disability pension in December 1883. A former mine manager, he died at age 82 in Port Morien, Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia in December 1911.

His service basics information from Bates1 and the Card File. The quote above from Colonel Cake’s Official Report. Court martial details from The United States Army and Navy Journal and Gazette of 5 March 1864. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

He married Betsy McDonald (1830-) and they had a son, Andrew Jackson Anderson (1853-1925). He married again, by 1860, Mary Stewart (1838-).

04/29/1830; Eastwood, Renfrewshire, SCOTLAND

12/13/1911; Port Morien, Cape Breton, NOVA SCOTIA