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formal seated portrait 16 april 1865 columbus , georgia savannah , georgia 250px 01 august 1824 charles augustus lafayette lamar.jpg charles augustus lafayette lamar
 charles augustus lafayette lamar
charles augustus lafayette lamar

charles augustus lafayette lamar -lrb- 1824-1865 -rrb- the son of gazaway bugg lamar was born and raised in savannah , georgia .
his mother and all 6 of his siblings were lost in the shipwreck of the steamship pulaski .
prior to the start of the civil war he invested in the wanderer which had run the slave blockade and was later impounded .
during the war he was active with his father in the importing and exporting company of georgia , one of the blockade runners of the american civil war .
toward the end of the war he held the rank of colonel , and according to u.s. general w.t. sherman , was the last confederate killed in the civil war , at the battle of columbus -lrb- 1865 -rrb- .
