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(1841 - 1913)
Home State: South Carolina
Education: SC Military Academy (later The Citadel)
Branch of Service: Staff
Unit: Law's Brigade
Before Sharpsburg
From Darlington, SC, he became a volunteer aide to his brother General Evander Law in the summer of 1862.
On the Campaign
From General Law's Sharpsburg Report:
The members of my staff-Lieutenant Terrell, assistant adjutant-general, Captain Kirkman, Lieutenant Law, of the Citadel Academy, and Private Smith, Fourth Alabama-as usual, performed every duty bravely and efficiently.He was wounded in the left ankle inn action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was commissioned Lieutenant and Enrolling Officer in South Carolina 1 October 1863.
After the War
He moved to Solano County, CA, in 1869. He was a school teacher there and in Mariposa County. He was later a lawyer and district attorney in Merced.
References & notes
Service from Krick.1
Birth
01/19/1841 in SC
Death
12/14/1913; Merced, CA; burial in Merced City Cemetery, Merced, CA
1 Krick, Robert E.L., Staff Officers in Gray; A Biographical Register of the Staff Officers in the Army of Northern Virginia, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003, pg. 199 [AotW citation 17565]