James L. Kemper
James Lawson Kemper was a lawyer, a Confederate general in the American Civil War, and the 37th Governor of Virginia. He was the youngest of the brigade commanders, and the only nonprofessional military officer, in the division that led Picketts Charge, in which he was wounded and captured but rescued.
Kemper was born at Mountain Prospect plantation in Madison County, Virginia, the son of William and Maria E. Allison Kemper. His fathers family had emigrated from near what became Siegen, Germany, in the early 18th century. His greatgrandfather had been among the miners recruited for Governor Alexander Spotswoods colony at Germanna, Virginia, and his merchant father had moved to the new town of Madison Court House in the 1790s after his own father had died falling from a horse in 1783, leaving his widow to take care of five daughters and a son. By the time young James was born, his paternal grandmother and four aunts also lived at the plantation which William Kemper had bought for 5,541.40 in 1800. His maternal greatgrandfather, Col. John Jasper Stadler, had served on George Washingtons staff as a civil engineer and planned fortifications in Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina during the American Revolutionary War, and his grandfather John Stadler Allison served as an officer in the
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