Kemper, James Lawson

Life Span
to
Full name
James Lawson Kemper
Place of Birth
Madison County, VA
Burial Place
Orange, VA
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
South
Origins
Slave State
Education
Other
Other Education
Washington College (VA)
Occupation
Politician
Military
Attorney or Judge
Government
Governor
State legislature
Military
Confederate Army
Date Event
Lee's attack on the Union center ends with the failure of Pickett's Charge
Chicago Style Entry Link
Jones, Robert R. "The Mexican War Diary of James Lawson Kemper." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 74, no. 4 (1966): 387-428. view record
How to Cite This Page: "Kemper, James Lawson," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/index.php/node/6024.