Anderson, C. L
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born March 15, 1845, in Noxubee county, Miss. He entered the confederate army as a private in the thirty - ninth infantry regiment, Mississippi volunteers, March 5, 1862, and served continuously in that command, receiving promotion through the successive grades of non commissioned officers until July, 1864, when he was transferred to Bradford's cavalry corps of scouts, with the rank of second lieutenant, in which capacity he served until the close of the war. He entered the university of Mississippi in January, 1866, where he remained until the summer of 1867, having taken a partial course in both the literary and law departments. He commenced the practice of law in the town of Kosciusko, Feb. 14, 1868; was elected to the Mississippi legislature in November, 1879, and served through the session of 1880; and was elected to the fiftieth congress, and was re-elected to the fifty-first congress. In 1896-97 he was United States district attorney of Mississippi.