Those Southern Lamars

Exciting stories about five Lamars including a New York banker who returned to his native Georgia to start a blockade running company with his son who was a slave blockade runner. Two Lamar U.S. Supreme Court Justices, one who started a troop of University of Mississippi students, and after the war became a senator and subject of J. F. Kennedy in "Profiles in Courage". Also, Mirabeau B. Lamar who was a Georgia native who was a hero at the battle of San Jacinto and second President of the Republic of Texas.