George Thomas "Tige" Anderson (3 February 1824-4 April 1901) was a Confederate States Army Brigadier-General during the American Civil War.
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George Thomas Anderson was born in Covington, Georgia on 3 February 1824, and he served as a US Army lieutenant during the Mexican-American War and remained in the Army until his resignation in 1858. He joined the Confederate States Army at the start of the American Civil War, commanding the 11th Georgia Infantry Regiment in the Army of Northern Virginia. Anderson first fought in the Peninsula Campaign, and he was given a brigade command during the Seven Days Battles, leading it through to the Battle of Fredericksburg. He was promoted to Brigadier-General on 1 November 1862, and he missed the Battle of Chancellorsville while stationed in southeastern Virginia. He was wounded in the Wheatfield during the Battle of Gettysburg, and he rejoined his men at the Siege of Knoxville. Anderson went on to fight in the Overland Campaign and the Siege of Petersburg, and he surrendered at Appomattox on 9 April 1865. After the war, Anderson became a railroad freight agent and police chief in Atlanta, and he later moved to Anniston, Alabama and became its police chief and county tax collector before dying there in 1901.