Nicholas Longworth Anderson Nicholas Longworth Anderson ( April 22 , 1838 – September 18 , 1892 ) was a United States Army officer who served in the American Civil War as Colonel of the 6th Ohio Volunteer Infantry . After the Civil War , he was nominated and confirmed for appointment to the brevet grades of brigadier general and major general of volunteers . Biography . Anderson graduated from Harvard College and traveled in Europe . He returned to Cincinnati and was studying law when the war began . Anderson volunteered as a private in the Union Army , but soon was promoted to colonel . He served in western Virginia and in most of the major campaigns in the Western Theater . Severely wounded twice , he mustered out of the service with the regiment on June 23 , 1864 . On December 18 , 1867 , President Andrew Johnson nominated Anderson to receive a brevet ( honorary promotion ) to the rank of brigadier general of Volunteers to rank from March 13 , 1865 for " gallant conduct and meritorious services in the battle of Stone ' s River , December 31 , 1862 " and the U . S . Senate confirmed the brevet on February 14 , 1868 . On December 19 , 1867 , President Johnson nominated Anderson for the award of the grade of brevet major general of U . S . volunteers , also to rank from March 13 , 1865 , for " distinguished gallantry and meritorious conduct in the battle of Chickamauga , September 19 and 20 , 1863 " and the U . S . Senate confirmed this brevet , also on February 14 , 1868 . General Anderson was a veteran companion of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States ( MOLLUS ) . His son Larz Anderson became an hereditary member of MOLLUS . Following the death of his father , Anderson spent much of the remainder of his days managing the estate he had inherited from his mother . Anderson died in Lucerne , Switzerland at age fifty - four and is buried in Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati . Relatives . Nicholas Longworth Anderson , son of Larz Anderson I and Catherine ( Longworth ) Anderson , was the scion of two distinguished Ohio families . Through his mother , he was the grandson of Nicholas Longworth , founder of the Longworth family . On his father ' s side , Nicholas Longworth Anderson was the grandson of Revolutionary War veteran , Richard Clough Anderson and the nephew of three notable uncles : His cousin Allen Latham Anderson attained the rank of Brevet Brigadier General . Another cousin , Thomas McArthur Anderson , was a brigadier general who fought in the Spanish - American War and the Philippine - American War . Wife and children . Nicholas Longworth Anderson married Elizabeth Coles Kilgour . Their son Larz Anderson III and daughter Elizabeth Kilgour Anderson were born while the couple was residing in Paris . As a young man , their son had served as Second Secretary to the U . S . Embassy in London under Robert Todd Lincoln and then First Secretary at the U . S . Embassy in Rome , served briefly as a captain in the Army during the Spanish - American War ( without seeing combat ) , served as U . S . Ambassador to Belgium , and finally served briefly as Ambassador to Japan in 1912 - 1913 , during the Administration of President William Howard Taft before retiring from public service . In 1897 , Larz married Isabel Weld Perkins who later edited and published " The letters and journals of General Nicholas Longworth Anderson ; Harvard , civil war , Washington , 1854 - 1892 " . Larz and Isabel also created the Anderson Memorial Bridge in Cambridge , Massachusetts and dedicated it to his memory . In 1899 , Elizabeth , known to friends and family as " Elsie , " married Philip Hamilton McMillan of Detroit , a Yale and Harvard educated attorney who was the son of Senator politician ( R - Michigan ) . After her husband ' s death in 1919 , Elsie established The Philip Hamilton McMillan Memorial Publication Fund at Yale University through a bequest of $ 100 , 000 . The Fund continues to operate under the aegis of Yale University Press .