Postbellum Career and Death
After the war Anderson was a planter in Stateburg from 1866 to 1868, attempting to grow cotton. Having no agricultural background this effort ended in bankruptcy. He then became a worker and later an agent of the South Carolina Railroad, working out of Camden from 1868 to 1878. However Anderson was fired from this position, and next served as a state phosphate inspector/agent of South Carolina in 1879.
Anderson was married twice. In 1850 he wed Sarah Gibson, and the couple had two children together, a son and a daughter; after her death he married Martha Mellette on December 24, 1874. Five years later Anderson died at the age of 57 in Beaufort, South Carolina, and is buried there in the churchyard cemetery of St. Helena's Episcopal Church.
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