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Col Charles Augustus LaFayette Lamar

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Col Charles Augustus LaFayette Lamar

Birth
Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia, USA
Death
16 Apr 1865 (aged 41)
Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia, USA
Burial
Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia, USA Add to Map
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Charles Augustus Lafayette Lamar was born in Savannah, Georgia on 01 April 1824 to Gazaway Bugg Lamar and Jane Meek Cresswell. The Marquis de Lafayette was his Godfather and was present at His baptism. He married Caroline Agnes Nicoll about 1846 in Georgia. Together they had Eliza Anderson, Jane Cresswell, Mary, Caroline Nicoll, Georgia G., and Mary S. Lamar.

Colonel Charles Augustus LaFayette Lamar organized a contingent of The Confederate Army. "The Lamar Rangers", McIntosh Co,Ga. 1st Georgia Cavalry Battalion. Capt. William Brailsford's Company. Also known as "The Savannah Mounted Rifles".

He was killed by a stray shot in the streets of Columbus, Georgia on 16 April 1865. He was a Colonel in 25th Ga. Cavalry when he died. One account says that he had a confrontation with Yankee soldiers, that the soldiers said he tried to draw a weapon and one of them killed him. Known as the "last conspicuous man" killed in the Civil War.

HE IS BURIED AT LAUREL GROVE CEMETERY,SAVANNAH,Ga.

Inscribed on his monument are the words:.. "In the morning it flourisheth and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down and withereth."... At the top of his monument is a wreath that is draped. Below that is a scabbard decorated with Ivy Vine....For more information on the Lamar family,please contact me..
Charles Augustus Lafayette Lamar was born in Savannah, Georgia on 01 April 1824 to Gazaway Bugg Lamar and Jane Meek Cresswell. The Marquis de Lafayette was his Godfather and was present at His baptism. He married Caroline Agnes Nicoll about 1846 in Georgia. Together they had Eliza Anderson, Jane Cresswell, Mary, Caroline Nicoll, Georgia G., and Mary S. Lamar.

Colonel Charles Augustus LaFayette Lamar organized a contingent of The Confederate Army. "The Lamar Rangers", McIntosh Co,Ga. 1st Georgia Cavalry Battalion. Capt. William Brailsford's Company. Also known as "The Savannah Mounted Rifles".

He was killed by a stray shot in the streets of Columbus, Georgia on 16 April 1865. He was a Colonel in 25th Ga. Cavalry when he died. One account says that he had a confrontation with Yankee soldiers, that the soldiers said he tried to draw a weapon and one of them killed him. Known as the "last conspicuous man" killed in the Civil War.

HE IS BURIED AT LAUREL GROVE CEMETERY,SAVANNAH,Ga.

Inscribed on his monument are the words:.. "In the morning it flourisheth and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down and withereth."... At the top of his monument is a wreath that is draped. Below that is a scabbard decorated with Ivy Vine....For more information on the Lamar family,please contact me..

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