Frank L. Anders

Frank LaFayette Anders (November 10, 1875 – January 23, 1966) was a United States Army soldier who received the congressional Medal of Honor for actions during the Philippine–American War (a.k.a.

His father, formerly a United States Army / Union Army soldier in the American Civil War (1861-1865), who died of complications a quarter-century later related to his wounds in 1890, and young Anders, at age 15 began work with the transcontinental railroad line of the Northern Pacific Railroad and became a machinist.

Although Filipino rebels has already proclaimed their independent Philippine Republic, instead a long grueling jungle guerrilla war and insurgency ensued 1899-1902.

Citation: With 11 other scouts, without waiting for the supporting battalion to aid them or to get into a position to do so, charged over a distance of about 150 yards (140 m) and completely routed about 300 of the enemy who were in line and in a position that could only be carried by a frontal attack.After returning home back east across the Pacific Ocean to the United States in 1899, he worked for several mining interests and in 1902, armed with only a seventh grade education and a few months at the Dakota Business College (1895), he decided to attend Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin, and after graduation in 1906 he became the first person awarded a scholarship by the University of Wisconsin at Madison where he studied Civil Engineering and was initiated into the Acacia Fraternity in 1907, and was subsequently employed chief engineer with the Utah Smelting Corporation for a decade from 1909 until 1920.

Major Anders died in 1966, and was the oldest surviving recipient of the congressional Medal of Honor at the time of his death.

Anders (left) and Peter H. Quinn (right) at Gettysburg