Lafayette Washington Groves (April 11, 1834 – November 8, 1872) was an American newspaper editor.
Returning home after graduation, he studied law in the office of Judge John Ryland, of Lexington, was admitted to the bar in 1857, and began practice in St. Joseph, where he remained about eighteen months.
He then went to Mississippi, and took charge of a High School, in Cayuga, Hinds County, and was thus engaged at the beginning of the war.
He then returned to Missouri, and entered the Southern army, under the command of Gen. Sterling Price.
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