2022-11 Raynors HCA Auction
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Lafayette McLaws (1821 - 1897) was a United States Army officer and a Confederate general in the American Civil War. He served at Antietam and Fredericksburg, where Robert E. Lee praised his defense of Marye's Heights, and at Gettysburg, where his division made successful assaults through the Peach Orchard and Wheatfield, but was unable to dislodge Union forces from Cemetery Ridge. After the Knoxville Campaign, he was court-martialed for inefficiency. Signed Card, "Your obet srt. L. McLaws, Major Gen'l, CSA, Army N. Va." COLQUITT Alfred (1824-1894) was a lawyer, preacher, soldier, 49th Governor of Georgia (1877-1882) and two-term U.S. Senator from Georgia (1883-1894), dying in office. He also served as an officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, reaching the rank of brigadier general. Signed Card, "Alfred H Colquitt, the Georgian, May 5/84."
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