ANDERSON, RICHARD HENRY Ameri can soldier, was born in South Carolina on Oct. 7, 1821. He graduated at West Point in 1842, and won the brevet of first lieutenant in the Mexican War, becoming first lieutenant in 1848 and captain in 1855, and took part in the following year in the Kansas troubles. At the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861 he entered the Confederate service as a brigadier general, being pro moted major general in August 1862 and lieutenant general in May 1864. Except for a few months spent with the army under Bragg in 1862, Anderson's service was wholly in the Army of Northern Virginia. Under Lee and Longstreet he served as a divisional commander in nearly every battle from 1862 to 1864, winning special distinction at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. When Longstreet was wounded at the battle of the Wilderness, Anderson succeeded him in command of the 1st corps, which he led thereafter. His services at the battle of Spottsylvania (q.v.) were most important. He remained with the army as a corps com mander to the close of the war, after which he retired into private life. He died at Beaufort (S.C.), on June 26, 1879.