Lafayette McLaws photographs, ca. 1860-1890.

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Lafayette McLaws photographs, ca. 1860-1890.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43887014

This collection consists of photographs of Lafayette McLaws in his confederate uniform and civilian clothes, his grave marker, and the house at 10 East 52nd Street in Savannah, Georgia.

1 box (.25 cf.)

Georgia Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7535341

Georgia Historical Society

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McLaws, Lafayette, 1821-1897

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Lafayette McLaws was born in Augusta, Georgia on January 15, 1821. He attended the University of Virginia in 1837, but before he completed his first year he was appointed a cadet at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He graduated from West Point in 1842. McLaws served in the U.S. Army on the Texas frontier and distinguished himself during the Mexican War (1846). When Georgia seceded from the Union he resigned his commission and was commissioned into the Confederate Army. He served with dis...