| Summary: | (Uniform indicates rank of brigadier general.) Graduated from West Point, 1839. Resigned his U.S. Army commission in 1841. Prior to secession, appointed as a colonel of the 1st Georgia Volunteers, who seized Fort Pulaski in January 1861. Promoted to brigadier general in April 1861. Major campaigns and battles include the Shenandoah Valley campaign, Seven Days', Second Manassas, and Antietam (wounded). After recovering from his wounds, he was appointed Quartermaster General for the Confederate Army, a post he retained for the remainder of the war. After the war, Lawton returned to Georgia, where he practiced law and entered politics. He died in Clifton Springs, New York, while traveling and is buried in Savannah, Georgia. 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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