Background
LAW, Evander Mclvor was born on August 7, 1836 in Darlington, South Carolina, United States, United States. Son of Ezekiel Augustus and Sarah Elizabeth (Mclvor) Law. His father was a lawyer and state legislator.
Businessman educator General lawyer military planter
LAW, Evander Mclvor was born on August 7, 1836 in Darlington, South Carolina, United States, United States. Son of Ezekiel Augustus and Sarah Elizabeth (Mclvor) Law. His father was a lawyer and state legislator.
Private school, southern university.
The younger Law attended public schools. Old St. John’s Academy, and South Carolina Military Academy in Charleston, where he graduated in 1856. He was a Democrat and a Presbyterian.
He married Jane Elizabeth Lotta on March 9, 1863. They had three sons and one daughter. Before the war, he practiced law in Darlington.
He was an assistant professor of belles lettres at the Citadel in 1857 and a professor of history and belles lettres at Kings Mountain Military Academy in Yorkville, South Carolina, from 1858 to 1860. In 1860, he moved to Tuskegee, Alabama, to found a military high school. When the Civil War began, he volunteered for service in the Confederate Army.
He helped to recruit Alabama troops for the Confederate Army and was elected lieutenant colonel of the 4th Alabama Regiment. Law served under General Barnard Bee during the battle of First Manassas and won praise from General Thomas J. Jackson for his performance as a brigade leader during the Seven Days in the summer of 1862. After fighting at Second Manassas and Sharpsburg, he was promoted to brigadier general on October 3, 1862.
At the battle of Gettysburg the following July, he assumed command of Hill’s Division on the second day of the battle and led the assault on Round Top, where he lost two thousand men. He performed heroically at the battle of Chickamauga and was wounded at Cold Harbor in June 1864. During the last months of the war, he commanded a cavalry force under General Joseph E. Johnston in the Carolinas.
He was promoted to major general on March 20,1865. He surrendered in North Carolina. After the war, he returned to South Carolina to become a planter and to enter the railroad business.
In the late 1860s, he moved to Tuskegee, Alabama. In 1872, he organized the Alabama Grange, and in 1881, he was named associate principal of Kings Mountain Institute in Alabama. When it closed in 1881 he moved to Florida.
He established the Southern Florida Military Institute at Bartow, Florida, in 1894, and in 1908, he retired from the institute. In 1905, he edited the Bartow Courier-Herald from which he retired in 1915.
"Peculiar institution" of slavery was not only expedient but also ordained by God and upheld in Holy Scripture.
Stands for preserving slavery, states' rights, and political liberty for whites. Every individual state is sovereign, even to the point of secession.
Spouse Jane Elizabeth Lotta.