Charles D . Anderson Charles David Anderson ( May 22 , 1827 – February 22 , 1901 ) was an American planter , businessman , legislator , and soldier . He served as a Confederate general during the American Civil War , in which he was wounded three times . After the war Anderson was a tax collector in Georgia . Early life and career . Charles D . Anderson was born in 1827 near Stone Mountain , located in DeKalb County , Georgia . He was a son of William Robert Anderson , a farmer and son of an American Revolution officer , and of Annie Coker . Charles Anderson made his home in Fort Valley in Houston County , where he engaged in planting , worked as a cotton merchant , and was a slaveholder . From 1857 to 1858 Anderson served as a justice of the court in Houston County , and prior to the American Civil War he served as mayor of Fort Valley , Georgia . Civil War service . When the American Civil War began in 1861 , Anderson chose to follow his home state of Georgia and the Confederate cause . He was elected captain in the 6th Georgia Infantry on May 27 , and assigned to command of the regiment ' s Company C . That October he led the forces guarding Choctaw and Owen Bluffs in Alabama . Anderson participated in the Maryland Campaign in the fall of 1862 , fighting during the Battle of Antietam on September 17 . In the fight he was wounded and captured by Union forces , and exchanged later that year . Upon release Anderson was promoted to major , effective back to the date of the Battle of Antietam . That December he took part in the Fredericksburg Campaign . In 1863 Anderson participated in the Chancellorsville Campaign and was seriously wounded on May 3 . He was hit in his shoulder , his abdomen , as well as his left hand , losing a finger in the process . On May 15 Anderson was promoted to lieutenant colonel , but due to his injuries he resigned his commission in the Confederate Army on January 20 , 1864 . Upon returning home to Georgia , Anderson was appointed aide - de - camp to Gov . Joseph E . Brown . During the summer of 1864 Anderson was appointed colonel of the 5th Georgia Militia , and by May he was promoted to brigadier general and given command of the 3rd Georgia Militia Brigade . His force was sent to augment the Army of Tennessee following the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain in late June , and served throughout the remainder of the Atlanta Campaign . On July 22 in the Battle of Atlanta Anderson ' s command was only lightly engaged . When Atlanta fell the militia forces were detached from the Army of Tennessee and served during Sherman ' s March to the Sea that winter . He was part of the Confederate attack in the Battle of Griswoldville on November 22 , where " Leading his brigade , Anderson had his clothes riddled with bullets and his horse was shot out from under him ; his coolness and precision in that unfortunate battle were marked . " Anderson was indeed wounded in this fight . Anderson and his force was part of the garrison defending Savannah , Georgia , in December 1864 . Following the surrender of Savannah his militia brigade was ordered to Augusta , and his last assignment was to defend Macon . Although he did not know nor did he serve , Anderson had been elected to Georgia ' s state senate near the end of 1863 , a term that ended in 1865 as the war came to a close . He also had been mustered out of the volunteer Confederate forces in January . Postbellum career . After the war ended , Anderson remained in Macon , where he operated a cotton warehouse as well as a running a farm supply business , and he was pardoned by the U . S . Government on September 25 , 1865 . When both adventures failed he returned to Fort Valley , Georgia , where he was the tax collector of Houston County . He died in Fort Valley in 1901 , and was buried in the city ' s Oak Lawn Cemetery .