Law, Evander McIvor

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    Full name
    Evander McIvor Law
    Place of Birth
    Burial Place
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    South
    Origins
    Slave State
    No. of Spouses
    1
    Family
    E. Augustus Law (father), Elizabeth McIvor Law (mother), Jane Elizabeth Law (wife), William A. Latta (father-in-law)
    Education
    Other
    Other Education
    South Carolina Military Academy
    Occupation
    Military
    Farmer or Planter
    Educator
    Military
    Confederate Army

    Evander McIvor Law (New York Times)

    Obituary
    Maj. Gen. E. M. Law Dies.
    BARTOW, Fla., Oct. 31.—Major Gen. E. M. Law, ranking surviving officer of the Army of the Confederacy, died here today after a week’s illness.
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        General Law was 84 years old, and was a professor of history and belle letters at the King’s Mountain Military Academy when the civil war started, and he was appointed Lieutenant Colonel of the 4th Alabama Infantry, and served through the war, attaining the rank of Major General in March, 1865.
    “Maj. Gen. E.M. Law Dies,” New York Times, November 1, 1920, p. 14: 6.
    How to Cite This Page: "Law, Evander McIvor," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/6065.