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Anderson, Robert (1805–1871)| US soldier. Anderson commanded the 1861 Federal garrison at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, whose surrender signalled the opening of the American Civil War. He spent much of the war in Kentucky but was forced to retire in 1863. In April 1865 he returned to Fort Sumter for the raising of the original flag. |
Anderson, Robert (Woodruff) (1917– )| US playwright. Best known for Tea and Sympathy (1953), the story of a schoolboy named as a homosexual, his later plays include You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running (1967). |
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