After leaving R-MC, Anderson attended medical school at the University of Virginia in 1858-59 and then attended the University of the City of New York, graduating with a medical degree in 1860. He was working in a hospital in New York City at the outbreak of the war and returned home to King and Queen County, VA. He is listed as absent and "exempt" on a December 18, 1861 roster of Co. B of the 9th VA Militia. He later enlisted in Co. C of the 24th VA Cavalry on September 22, 1862, but was absent from the regiment for most of the war as he was appointed a hospital steward on October 15, 1862, a position in which he served until the war's end. He was paroled in Williamsburg, VA on May 12, 1865.
Dr. Anderson returned to King and Queen County, VA after the war and practiced medicine. He died August 4, 1904 and is buried in the cemetery at Shackelsford Chapel United Methodist Church in Plain View, King and Queen County, VA, the church he attended. Although there are reports he has a marker in Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery, a search of Hollywood's burial records do not list him.
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