Fort Sumter - April 14, 1865
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Robert Anderson returned to Fort Sumter on April 14, 1865 for a ceremony to raise the flag he had lowered four years before when the fort surrendered. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.
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Union General Robert Anderson
Historical Marker #534 in Louisville notes the birthplace of Robert Anderson, the commander of Ft. Sumter and the "first Union hero of [the] Civil War."
Born in 1805 at "Soldiers Retreat" in Jefferson County, Anderson was…