Botts, Lawson

Life Span
to
Full name
Lawson Botts
Place of Birth
Fredericksburg, VA
Burial Place
Zion Episcopal Church Cemetery, Charles Town, WV
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
South
Origins
Slave State
No. of Spouses
1
No. of Children
5
Family
Thomas Hutchinson Botts (father), Anne Carter Willis Botts (mother), Elizabeth Bibb Ranson 1851 (wife)
Education
Other
Other Education
Virginia Military Institute
Occupation
Military
Attorney or Judge
Church or Religious Denomination
Episcopalian
Military
Confederate Army

Lawson Botts (Wise, 1915)

Reference
BOTTS, LAWSON, from Charles Town, W. Va. Colonel, 2d Va. Infantry. Died of wounds received at Second Manassas, on September 16, 1862. (Appointed by the Court to defend John Brown, at Harper’s Ferry).
Jennings Cropper Wise, The Military History of the Virginia Military Institute from 1839 to 1865 (Lynchburg, VA: J. P. Bell Company, Inc., 1915), 434.
Date Event
John Brown appears before a Virginia court for the first time
Harpers Ferry Raid
Date Title
Carlisle (PA) American Volunteer, "Trial of Brown, the Insurgent," November 3, 1859
Raleigh (NC) Register, “Brown’s Virginia Counsel,” November 9, 1859
Cleveland (OH) Herald, “What the South Intends to do on the Fourth of March,” December 15, 1860
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