Harvey Reese Anderson

He was 4th and youngest son of militia Brigadier General and state legislator Thomas Farmer Anderson (1779-1875). In 1860 he was a prosperous 39 year old physician and owner of 7 slaves on a plantation near Homer in Banks County, GA. He enlisted there on 24 August 1861, and mustered as a Private in Company A, 24th Georgia Infantry.

He was slightly wounded by a gunshot to his shoulder in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and captured.

He was treated at the US Sixth Army Corps field hospital in Burkittsville, MD, paroled and sent to Fortress Monroe, VA from Fort McHenry on 27 October, and was in a hospital in Richmond, VA by 4 November. He was furloughed home on 24 November 1862 and was on duty in a CS hospital in Petersburg, VA by September 1863. He was listed as absent without leave by May 1864 and died at home in April 1865, cause not found.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists, notably William Harris & Edna Anderson Manning's Our Kin (1958), source also of his portrait, and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Elizabeth "Beth" Wellborn (1830-1904) in June 1848 and they had 8 children by 1863.

09/08/1820; Franklin County, GA

04/07/1865; Banks County, GA; burial in Mintz Cemetery, Maysville, GA