BASIC INFORMATION ABOUT BRIGADIER GENERAL EVANDER M. LAW

Date of Birth: August 7, 1836

Date of Death: October 31, 1920

Place of Birth: Darlington Dist., South Carolina

Place of Death: Bartow, Polk County, Florida

Father: Ezekiel Agustus Law (Born: July 3, 1809 in Darlington Dist., South Carolina, Died: July 27, 1882) Buried: Oak Hill Cemetery, Bartow, Polk County, Florida
Mother: Sarah Elizabeth McIver (Born: April 3, 1815 in Darlington Dist., South Carolina., Died: June 28, 1885 Occupation: Military Instructor, Newspaper Editor, Teacher
Spouse: Jennifer Latta (Born: November 13, 1844, Died: 1920) Enlisted: Joined the Confederate Army on April 28, 1861
Children: McIver, William Latta, Augustus Residences: South Carolina; Tuskegee Alabama; Bartow, Florida

BRIGADIER GENERAL EVANDER M. LAW's CONFEDERATE SERVICE HISTORY

 

Campaigns that Law fought in:

First Bull Run, Peninsula, Seven Days, Gaines' Mill, Second Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, Chattanooga,
Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Cold Harbor

Service History:  

1. Captain, 28th April 1861, election, commission expired May 3, 1861, Dalton, Georgia, 

2. promoted Lt. Colonel. Appointed from Alabama, October 3, 1862. Rank dated from same date. Date of confirmation: October 3, 1862. 

3. Wounded July 21, 1861 at First Manassas in the arm

4. Promoted to Brigadier General on October 15, 1862

5. Wounded at Cold Harbor, January 3, 1864. Bullet fractured his skull and injured his left eye

6. Recommended for promotion to Major General on March 20, 1865.  He never received the promotion

7. Paroled at Charlotte, N. C., May 25, 1865.

 

The above information was gathered by Ms. Georgia V. Fleming.

Other sources that I used include:

Eicher, John H., and Eicher, David J., Civil War High Commands, Stanford University Press, 2001

Tagg, Larry, The Generals of Gettysburg, Savas Publishing, 1998

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