Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar

Born in Eatonton, Georgia on September 17, 1825, the poetically named Lamar graduated from Emory in 1845 and married to Virginia Longstreet in 1847. Lamar studied law and also served for a year as professor of mathematics in the University of Mississippi. He was elected to Congress as a Democrat from Mississippi after a stint in the Georgia legislature, serving from 1857 until 1860 when he left Congress to become a member of Mississippi's secession convention. He drafted the Mississippi ordinance of secession.

Lamar became lieutenant colonel of the 19th Mississippi on June 11, 1861, rising to the rank of colonel in May 1862. He resigned in November and served the Confederacy for a period as a diplomat on a special mission to Russia, France, and England. At Appomattox, Lamar was paroled at the rank of colonel on the 3rd Corps Military Court.

Post-War, Lamar served as professor of metaphysics, social science, and law at the University of Mississippi and served another stint in Congress from 1873 to 1876. He served as Secretary of Interior under Grover Cleveland. Cleveland then appointed Lamar Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He served in that role from 1888 to 1893.

Lamar died in Vineville, Georgia on January 23, 1893. First interred in Riverside Cemetery, Macon, he was later moved St. Peter’s Cemetery, Oxford, Mississippi.

This officer was a member of Posey's Brigade in Anderson's / Mahone's Division.

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