# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samuel-read-anderson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:29:31.557Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/samuel-read-anderson"
name: "Samuel Read Anderson"
slug: "samuel-read-anderson"
description: "Samuel Read Anderson was an American businessman and military officer in the Mexican-American War. He was the Postmaster of Nashville, Tennessee, from 1853 until 1861 and then was a Confederate Brigadier General during the American Civil War. He commanded a mixed brigade of infantry and cavalry in the Eastern Theater in Virginia until the spring of 1862 when he was forced to resign because of ill health. Anderson later supervised the Confederate military draft in Tennessee until the end of the war."
tagline: "Confederate Army general (1804-1883)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Samuel_R._Anderson.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1804-02-17"
deathDate: "1883-01-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.95
  momentum:             11
  historical:           5.005328
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B5%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A6%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%A3%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "صموئيل ريد أندرسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Read_Anderson"
    title: "Samuel Read Anderson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Read_Anderson"
    title: "Samuel Read Anderson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Read_Anderson"
    title: "Samuel Read Anderson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Read_Anderson"
    title: "Samuel Read Anderson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2218791"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump