Bruce Anderson (Medal of Honor)
Bruce Anderson was an African American Union Army soldier in the American Civil War and a recipient of Americas highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions during the Second Battle of Fort Fisher.
Anderson was born June 19, 1845 in Mexico City but by the beginning of the Civil War was working as a farmer in New York. He enlisted for service in the military from Schenectady on August 31, 1864 as a private into Company K of the 142nd New York Infantry. Anderson has the unusual, but not unique, distinction of being an African American soldier who served in a white Civil War regiment.
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