Law, Evander McIvor

Life Span
to
Full name
Evander McIvor Law
Place of Birth
Darlington, SC
Burial Place
Bartow, FL
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.
Date Event
At Gettysburg, V Corps troops hold, just, the threatened right flank of the Union line at Little Round Top
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