Robert Anderson

(noun)

(June 14, 1805–October 26, 1871) An American military leader. He served as a Union Army officer in the American Civil War and is known for his command of Fort Sumter at the start of the war.

Related Terms

  • Fort Moultrie
  • Fort Sumter

Examples of Robert Anderson in the following topics:

  • Attack on Fort Sumter

    • Under the cover of darkness on December 26, six days after South Carolina declared its secession, Major Robert Anderson received orders from the federal government to abandon the indefensible Fort Moultrie and relocate his command to Fort Sumter.
    • Major Anderson, unaware of the Star's approach, declined to fire on the Confederate batteries.
    • Only Secretary of State Robert Toombs opposed out of concern for appearing as the aggressor and alienating undecided parties.
    • Ironically, Major Anderson was a particularly close friend of Beauregard’s and previously served as his artillery instructor at West Point.
    • Beauregard, in turn, had served as Major Anderson's assistant in the Mexican-American War.
  • Abraham Lincoln's Family

    • After President Lincoln’s assassination, his wife Mary Todd Lincoln secured the first life pension for the widow of a president, and their son Robert rose to prominence as a lawyer and politician.
    • Mary and her son Robert Lincoln sat with the president through the night.
    • Robert Lincoln, who had served on Ulysses S.
    • Nonetheless, Robert was appointed secretary of war during the administrations of James Garfield and Chester Arthur and served as minister to England during Benjamin Harrison’s administration.
    • Discuss the experiences of Mary Todd and Robert Lincoln in the aftermath of President Lincoln's death
  • Eleanor Roosevelt

    • Her most publicized act of opposition to segregation was when in 1939 she severed her connection with the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), after the organization banned Marian Anderson, a black opera singer, from performing at the Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. that DAR owned.
    • With the help of Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, also anti-segregationist, she arranged for Anderson to sing on the stairs of the Lincoln Memorial.
  • Federal Intervention

    • Robert Kennedy replied, "Civil Rights."
    • Robert Kennedy played a large role in the Freedom Riders protests.
    • Despite this, Robert Kennedy intervened on behalf of the civil rights activists on numerous occasions.
    • Throughout this time, both Robert Kennedy and John F.
    • Robert Kennedy demonstrated federal support for the civil rights movement.
  • Changing Roles for Women

    • Mary Anderson, director of the Women's Bureau, U.S.
  • The Election of 1980

    • Anderson, a liberal Republican, received 6.7%).
  • The Lost Generation

    • In addition to Hemingway and Fitzgerald, the movement of writers and artists also loosely includes John Dos Passos, Waldo Peirce, Alan Seeger, John Steinbeck, Sherwood Anderson, Aldous Huxley, Malcolm Crowley, Isadora Duncan, James Joyce, Henry Miller, and T.S.
  • Battles in the Courts and Congress

    • In 1987, when Associate Justice Louis Powell retired, Reagan nominated conservative jurist Robert Bork to the high court.
    • Robert Bork's America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of the Government, and the doors of the Federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens.
    • The rapid response of Kennedy's "Robert Bork's America" speech stunned the Reagan White House; though conservatives considered Kennedy's accusations slanderous ideological smears on a well-qualified candidate for the bench, the attacks went unanswered for two and a half months.
    • Reagan nominated conservative jurist Robert Bork to the high court.
  • Lee's Surrender at Appomattox

    • Robert E.
    • Grant's Army of the Potomac and General Robert E.
    • Grant sat at the simple wooden table on the right while Robert E.
  • 1968: The Year of Upheaval

    • In the spring, the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F.
    • On February 28, Robert S.
    • Just two months later, on June 5th, 1968, Robert F.
    • With Johnson's withdrawal, the Democratic Party quickly split into four factions, each of which distrusted the others: labor unions and big-city supporters of Vice President Hubert Humphrey; college students and upper-middle-class whites who actively opposed the war and rallied behind Senator Eugene McCarthy; Catholics, African-Americans, Hispanics, and other racial and ethnic minorities who were passionate supporters of Senator Robert F.
    • Outline the events of 1968 including the Tet Offensive and assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy
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