Winnie Davis Camp No. 108 UCV Records from Membership Register   E. P. Anderson Entered Conf Serv April 1861, Lt. Co H, 14th Miss; promoted to Capt of Cavalry Dec 1861; present around Vicksburg, Bakers & Beer Creek, Jacksonville, et al. Inst at end of war at Greenville, Ala. [article from The Confederate Veteran, Vol. VXXII, Oct. 1914, No. 10] "E. P. Anderson Sr. of Waxahachie, Tex. wants to get in touch with some U. S. soldiers whom he saw during the War or their families if they are not living.  He writes that in 1863, a month or so before the surrender of Vicksburg, a number of transports had a small fight with some dismounted Confederate cavalrymen who were ambushed on a high bluff on the south side of the Yazoo River.  As one of the transports got opposite the Confederates, a U. S. officer was standing on the deck by the smokestack.  The first shot fired was at this officer and by the time the second shot was fired he had gotten behind the smokestack.  After the fight was over, and the Federals were landing some men, the Confederates fell back.  One of them was wounded and carried off the field by two of his friends.  "It is my impression that the Federals stopped firing  because of this and I would like to hear from the officer who ordered them to cease firing and to thank him.  On July 3rd, before Vicksburg surrendered, Lt. Chase, who said he was a nephew of Chief Justice Chase of the Supreme Court, was captured on the Yazoo River above Vicksburg.  In the fall of 1863 about 12-15 miles east of Natchez, the advance guards of the Confederates and Federals met about eleven o'clock at night in a grove of timber.  A Federal and Confederate fought a pistol duel and at the third fire from the Confederate, the Federal was shot and from the flash of his pistol the Confederate saw him fall and saw him taken off by his friends.  I would like to hear from all of these Federal soldiers if still living." [Biographical sketch from Memorial and Biographical History, Ellis County, Texas 1892] Captain E. P. Anderson of Waxahachie, Texas, was born near Pendleton, S. C. in 1842, a son of Robert Anderson. His father was a graduate of South Carolina college, and was fully equipped for the profession of law, but having stronger desires for agricultural pursuits, he abandoned his profession and engaged in farming. Mrs. Robert Anderson is a great granddaughter of General Pickens, of Revolutionary fame, whose ancestors were from an old Huguenot family. Robert Anderson is a grandson of General Anderson, who served under Morgan at the battle of Cowpens. E. P. Anderson was the sixth in a family of thirteen children. He emigrated to Mississippi in 1858 with his parents, settling near Meridian, where he attended high school. Before he had time to complete his education, the Civil War began and he enlisted  as 2nd Lt., Co. H., Fourteenth Mississippi Regiment. Eight months later he resigned his position and was given a commission by the secretary of War of the Confederate States to raise a company of cavalry and act as its captain. Consequently Mr. Anderson raised an independent company, and operated in connection with General Forrest, where he served during the remainder of the war. He participated in the battles of Champion Hill, Jackson, Vicksburg, and many others of minor importance. At the close of the war, Captain Anderson was in Alabama, where, in 1866, he enrolled in the University of Virginia, and graduated in the law department in 1867. The following years he settled in Hood County, Texas, and two years later opened a law office in Waxahachie, where he has since built up an extensive practice. He has also about 1,000 acres of fine farming land south of Waxahachie, where he is engaged in stock- raising. Mr. Anderson in 1873  married Miss Watson, a daughter of Colonel Watson of the Nineteenth Texas Cavalry. They have four living children: Mary, Pickens, Berwick and Ben. The Captain is a member of the I. O. O. F., and the family are members of the Presbyterian Church  [He died April 3, 1923]   Copyright © 2003-2016, Ellis County TXGenWeb. All Rights Reserved. This page was last modified: Thursday, 01-Jul-2021 13:18:34 MDT