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Listen: The World ProgramMajor General Evander McIver Law, president of the South Florida Military Institute.
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Evander McIver Law was born in South Carolina in 1836. He graduated from the Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina in 1856 and taught in military schools in that state and Alabama until 1861. He joined the Confederate Army and was commissioned a brigadier general at the age of 26. His brigade led the assault on Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg. Following the war he worked for the railroad, and became a planter and newspaper editor before resuming teaching at Kings Mountain Military Academy in South Carolina. In 1894 General Law established the South Florida Military Institute in Bartow, which, in 1905, merged with other schools to become the University of Florida. General Law resigned from the school in 1903 to become editor of the Bartow Courier Informant. Evander McIvor Law died in 1920, the last surviving Confederate General.
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