Proclamation regarding postmaster Lafayette McLaws, 1884.

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Proclamation regarding postmaster Lafayette McLaws, 1884.

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This is a statement of citizens of Savannah endorsing General Lafayette McLaws' performance of duties as postmaster of Savannah. David Yuley Dancy's is the only signature on the document. It is possible that other copies were circulated.

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Dancy, David Yuley.

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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...