Charles Augustus Lafayette Lamar, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Slave blockade runner, Army Confederate officer
Date of Birth: 01-Apr-1824
Place of Birth: Savannah, Georgia, United States
Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Charles Augustus Lafayette Lamar
- Charles Augustus Lafayette Lamar (1824-1865) was known as an American businessman from Savannah who invested in the ship Wanderer to import slaves from Africa in 1858, decades after it was prohibited by law.
- The ship ran blockades and brought 409 surviving slaves from the Congo to the United States for sale.
- The ship was later impounded.
- Although Lamar and numerous other defendants were prosecuted, none was convicted of any crime.
- This was the penultimate slave ship known to have brought in slaves before the Civil War, and the last with a large cargo.
- The last was Clotilda, which brought 110 slaves to Mobile, Alabama on July 9, 1860. Born and raised in Savannah, Georgia, Lamar was the son of businessman and banker Gazaway Bugg Lamar and Jane Meek Cresswell of that city.
- His mother and all five of his siblings, plus a niece, were lost in the June 1838 explosion and wreck of the steamship Pulaski, when two-thirds of the passengers died.
- He and his father were among the 59 who survived the sinking.During the Civil War, Lamar initially organized and commanded the 7th Georgia Battalion.
- After it was merged with the 61st Georgia Infantry, he returned to civilian life.
- He worked with his father in the Importing and Exporting Company of Georgia, which supported blockade runners to keep open trade between the Confederacy and the North, as well as having extensive trade relations with England and France.
- Toward the end of the war, Lamar returned to military service and held the rank of Colonel.
- He was the last Confederate killed in the Civil War, at the Battle of Columbus (1865).
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