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Civil War Soldiers - McLaws
McLAWS, LAFAYETTE, Georgia.
Major, Corps of Infantry, C. S. A., March 10, 1861.
Colonel, Tenth Georgia Volunteer Infantry, June 17, 1861.
Brigadier general, P. A. C. S., September 25, 1861.
Major general, P. A. C. S., May 23, 1862.
Commands.
Brigade, in October, 1861, composed of the Fifteenth and Thirty-
second Virginia, the Fifth and Tenth Louisiana, and the Tenth,
Fiftieth, Fifty-third and Fifty-seventh Georgia Regiments of Infantry,
and Manley's Light Battery of Artillery. Division, in June, 1862,
composed of the brigades of Kershaw, Wofford, Humphreys and Bryan. At
battle of Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863, division composed of brigades
of Wofford, Kershaw, Barksdale and Semmes. In 1864, commanding
District of Georgia, extending to Salkehatchie, S. C. December — ,
1864, commanding division under General Hardee. In 1865, commanding
division under General Hardee, in General J. E. Johnston's Army.
McLaws, Lafayette, born in Georgia, appointed from Georgia cadet
United States Military Academy, July 1, 1838; graduated forty-eighth
in a class of fifty-six.
Brevet second lieutenant, Sixth Infantry, July 1, 1842.
Second lieutenant, Seventh Infantry, March 16, 1844.
First lieutenant, February 16, 1847.
Captain, August 24, 1851.
Resigned March 23, 1861.
Source: Military Records of General Officers of the Confederate
States of America, by Charles B. Hall, 1898
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