LAW, EVANDER M.
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August 7, 1836-October 31, 1920. Born in Darlington, S.C. Citadel Class of 1856. Major General in the Confederate Army. Served in all the important campaigns in the Eastern theater of the war, including Gettysburg. Wounded at Cold Harbor. General Law was one of the Confederate commanders responsible for evacuation of Columbia, in advance of General Sherman's arrival in 1865. He supposedly removed some official state papers from the capital in order to save them from possible destruction. In 2004 the State of South Carolina went into court in an effort to regain custody of the papers from General Law's descendants. As a teacher and administrator he was associated with several institutions of learning. He was instrumental in establishing the Florida educational system after the Civil War. Barracks #3 is named after him. (Sources: Ezra Warner, Generals in Gray, pp. 174-175. REF E467.W3; Dictionary of American Biography, vol. 11, pp, 38-39. REF E176 .D56; Brian Hicks, "State Opens Fire in Battle for Civil War Documents," Post and Courier, August 7, 2004, p. 1A; Schuyler Kropf, "Confederate Papers Belong to State, Judge Says," Post and Courier, August 16, 2005, p. 1B; Schuyler Kropf, "Federal Judge Reverses Ruling on Civil War Letters," Post and Courier, January 13, 2006, p. 3B; Nita Birmingham, "Judges: General's Relative Owns Confederate Papers," Post and Courier, October 28, 2006, p. 1B) (HN, DH & EC)
