Chapman L. Anderson

Chapman Levy Anderson (March 15, 1845 – April 27, 1924) was an American lawyer and politician who served two terms as a U.S. Representative from Mississippi, from 1887 to 1891.

[1] In 1861, he enlisted in the Confederate States Army on March 5, 1862, as a private in the Thirty-ninth Regiment, Mississippi Volunteer Infantry.

He was promoted through the successive grades of noncommissioned officer until July 1864, when he was transferred to Bradford's cavalry corps of scouts with the rank of second lieutenant, in which capacity he served until the close of the war.

[4] Later, in 1890, Cook was ambushed and murdered by a gang of white supremacists while campaigning to be a delegate at Mississippi's 1890 Constitutional Convention.

[1] He had three children: Jenny Flora; Chapman Levy, who died on September 25, 1883; and Mary Ellen, who married lawyer James E. Teat on June 22, 1904.