Baker, Laurence Simmons

Life Span
to
Full name
Laurence Simmons Baker
Place of Birth
Gates County, NC
Burial Place
Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suffolk, VA
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
South
Origins
Slave State
Family
John Burges (father), Mary G. W. Baker (mother), Elizabeth E. Henderson (wife)
Education
West Point (US Military Academy)
Occupation
Military
Businessman
Relation to Slavery
White non-slaveholder
Military
US military (Pre-Civil War)
Confederate Army
Date Event
- Union forces pursue Lee's into Maryland and Stuart's covering Confederates clash with Union cavalry
How to Cite This Page: "Baker, Laurence Simmons," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/index.php/node/5029.