The Biographical Dictionary of America/Anderson, Nicholas Longworth

ANDERSON, Nicholas Longworth, soldier, was born in Cincinnati, O., April 22, 1838, son of Larz Anderson, and nephew of General Robert Anderson. He was graduated at Harvard college in 1858, after which he spent about two years in study at the German universities. Returning to America in 1860, he began the study of law, but on the breaking out of the civil war enlisted as a private. On April 19, 1861, he was commissioned lieutenant and adjutant of the 6th Ohio volunteers; on June 12, following, he was made lieutenant colonel, and in August of the succeeding year, colonel. He was with the regiment in the West Virginia campaign, and shared in all the marches and battles of Generals Buell, Rosecrans, and Thomas, being wounded at Shiloh, and again at Stone River, and at Chickamauga. On March 13, 1865, he was brevetted brigadier-general for gallant conduct at Stone River, and major-general for distinguished gallantry at Chickamauga. The war over he completed his preparation for the bar, to which he was duly admitted at Cincinnati, subsequently removing to Washington, D.C. He died at Lucerne, Switzerland, Sept, 18, 1892.