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The
McLaws Family — Anna
Laura McLaws |
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Laura McLaws was James and Elizabeth Huguenin's first
child (Lafayette's older sister). She was born in Augusta, Georgia
on October 29, 1816. |
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Virginia
described Laura as "a good scholar, fond of reading." |
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Uldrick
Huguenin McLaws's son, Lafayette, wrote in a short biographical
sketch that "Laura, the daughter, died unmarried
but was a sweetheart of Henry Clay's." |
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McLaws
referred to Laura throughout his letters home. It was Laura
who informed McLaws that Emily had just given birth to a new
son in December 1861. She described Uldrick Huguenin McLaws
as "... The finest boy in Augusta."
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| Laura
continued to write her brother throughout the war. She must
have expressed concern about McLaws's new defense counsel for
court-martial. Her brother, however, was not at all concerned
when he wrote, "Doctor G [ Joseph Ganahl Jr.) has already
silenced several slanders, and had done me considerable benefit
by correcting false impressions made by [Lieutenant General
James] Longstreet's emissaries." |
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joined her brother when we was reassigned to Savannah in the
summer of 1864. |
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She
died on July 17, 1894 and is buried near her parents in Augusta,
Georgia. (1)
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ASG, 4-5. GHS-LM Biography. ASG, 117. |
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