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Henry DeLamar Clayton (general) : ウィキペディア英語版 | Henry DeLamar Clayton (general)
Henry DeLamar Clayton, Sr. (March 7, 1827 – October 3, 1889) was a prominent Alabama attorney, politician, Redeemer judge, and college president. He also served as a major general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, commanding a division in the Army of Tennessee in the Western Theater.〔'History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alaba Biography,' Thomas McAdory Owen and Marie Bankhead Owen, S.J.Cements Publishing:1921, pg. 347〕 ==Early life and career== Henry D. Clayton was born in Pulaski County, Georgia. He graduated from Emory and Henry College in Virginia. He moved to Eufaula, Alabama, after graduation and read law. He passed the bar exam in 1849 and opened an office in Clayton, Alabama, where he married Victoria Hunter and raised a family. Two of his sons, Henry De Lamar Clayton, Jr. and Bertram Tracy Clayton, later became United States Congressmen. His brother-in-law James L. Pugh was also a Congressman. He was twice elected to the Alabama House of Representatives, serving from 1857 until 1861. Clayton recruited and organized a local militia organization and was elected as its captain. Among his subordinate officers was future fellow Civil War general William W. Adams. In August 1860, he was elected as colonel of the 3rd Alabama Volunteers, a statewide militia organization.
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