Archive for the Tag 'Robert Anderson'

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Love, Loyalty, and Robert Anderson

Eliza Clinch Anderson knew when her husband, Major Robert Anderson, was ordered to report to Fort Moultrie on November 15, 1860, that he had been given the toughest job in the United States Army:  Maintaining the defensive positions in Charleston Harbor without provoking conflict with the state of South Carolina, which was threatening to withdraw from the […]