| Summary: | (Uniform indicates rank of brigadier general.) Graduated from West Point, 1842; Mexican War veteran. Resigned his U.S. Army commission in 1861 and was commissioned as a major in the Confederate Infantry in March 1861. After promoting through the grades, McLaws was promoted to brigadier general in September 1861 and major general in May 1862. Major campaigns and battles include the Peninsular campaign, Harpers Ferry, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Knoxville, and the Carolinas. After the war, McLaws returned to Georgia where he worked as a businessman and later with the federal government. He died in Savannah, Georgia, in July 1897 and is buried there. Sources: Boatner, Mark M. The Civil War Dictionary. New York: Vintage Books, 1988. Davis, William C., ed. The Confederate General. Vol. 4. National Historical Society, 1991.
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