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Lafayette McLaws ()

Lafayette McLaws (January 15, - July 24, ) was a U.S. Army officer and a Confederate general in the American Civil War.

McLaws, who pronounced his first name "La-FAY-ette", was born in Augusta, Georgia.

Longstreet biography

He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in and served as an infantry officer in the Mexican War, in the west, and in the expedition to Utah Territory to suppress the Mormon uprising. While at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, he married Emily Allison Taylor, the niece of Zachary Taylor.

At the start of the Civil War, resigning as a U.S.

Army captain, McLaws was commissioned a major in the Confederate States Army. He was quickly promoted to colonel of the 10th Georgia Infantry regiment; then quickly again to brigadier general in brigade and division command in the Seven Days Battles; then, on May 23, , to major general.

He joined James Longstreet's corps in the Army of Northern Virginia as 1st Division commander and stayed with Longstreet for most of the war