became assistant chief of ordnance on the staff of General Lee, a position he held until after the battle of Fredericksburg, in December, 1863. Subsequently he served upon the staff of Maj.-Gen. W. D. Pender, commanding a division of A. P. Hill's corps, until Pender fell mortally wounded at Gettysburg, and after that time upon the staff of the successor to the command of the "Light Division," Gen. Cadmus Wilcox, until the surrender at Appomattox. Meanwhile he was commissioned captain of artillery in the regular army. He was at Appomattox Court House when the surrender of Lee's army took place, but made his way to the headquarters of Gen. J. E. Johnston, in North Carolina, and at the surrender of the latter, started with Gen. Wade Hampton to join the army of the Trans-Mississippi. Hampton did not proceed further than Yorkville, S. C., but Captain Anderson went on with General Lee's scout, Shadbourne, and his party, toward Texas. With three others he reached Alexandria, in the Red river country, but the Federals being in possession, and Gen. Kirby Smith having surrendered, Captain Anderson went to New Orleans and returned to Virginia upon a transport steamer. This terminated his military career, and for a livelihood he engaged in teaching school for a year at Norfolk. During his residence there he was married to Miss Lizzie Masi, daughter of the Virginia educator and composer, Prof. P. H. Masi. In 1867 he removed to Washington, D. C, studied law in the Columbian university, and was admitted to the bar in 1871. In his subsequent practice he has made a specialty of patent law, a department of jurisprudence in which he has attained high rank. His investigations in this line of work are models of accuracy and thoroughness, and the correctness of his conclusions is seldom found to be questionable. In the midst of an active professional career he has retained a lively sympathy for his comrades in the Confederate army, and maintains a membership in Pickett-Buchanan camp, of Norfolk, and in the Washington Confederate Veterans association, of which he was the organizer and president.
Linnæus B. Anderson, M. D., a prominent physician of Norfolk, Va., is a native of Caroline county, of that State, and the son of Dr. Thomas Bates Anderson, who was born in Hanover county, January 14, 1792, the son of John Anderson, and he of Thomas Anderson, of English birth, who was a naval architect of Gloucester, Va. Of the ancestry of the latter no authentic record is possessed. He was born February 10, 1733, and married Frances Jones, of Gloucester, March 29, 1757. She, according to tradition and the corroboration of associated facts, was the daughter of Elizabeth (Cary) Jones, daughter of William Cary and granddaughter of Col. Myles Cary, the immigrant to Virginia, whose ancestral lines run back to Sir William Cary, husband of Mary Boleyn, the sister of Anne Boleyn, and father of William Cary, lord mayor of Bristol. Dr. Thomas B. Anderson's mother was a Miss Trevilian, whose mother was Sophia Terry, akin to the families of the same name in Lynchburg and southwest Virginia, and to the Bates family of Missouri. His father, John Anderson, who was in his minority during the Revolution, and had small facilities for education, was nevertheless a man of fine natural mental powers, and having determined to fully educate his children, sent his son, Thomas B., to the academies
