Original grave of Clingman was off Fulton Industrial Boulevard where a farmer/plantation was once located. Later his family had him re-interred to the Westview cemetery in a special section just for him. Sons of the Confederacy purchased the marker. (Information from cemetery official)
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The Atlanta Journal • 22 Jun 1961, Thu • Page 54 • (Atlanta, Georgia) Newspapers.com ,
Civil War Grave Stirs Historians
Plans to transfer a young Confederate officer's lonely grave, after nearly a century, from a wooded area in old Campbell County to Westview Cemetery revives interest in this sad and typical tragedy incidental to the Battle of Atlanta.
The grave is near the old Hornsby family cemetery in that part of Fulton County that was once Campbell, near the river. Some years after the War Between the States, relatives of Lt. Edward Peter Clingman erected a granite marker at the place and enclosed the spot with an iron fence.
Today, 97 years later, the Army of Tennessee Department, Georgia Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans, plan to disinter the body and re-bury it with full military honors. Descendants and the governors of North Carolina and Arkansas are invited to participate.
THE SCV PLANS later to remove a lone Union soldier's grave, across the Chattahoochee River from where Clingman lies, to rest beside his former foe in the ceme-tery. The spot will be designated "The Blue and Gray Park."
The marker reads: "Lieut. Edward Peter Clingman, C.S.A., son of Dr. and Mrs. Henry Patillo Clingman,
of Goldsboro, N.C. Born Apr. 23, 1842, killed in battle near Atlanta, Ga., Apr. 23, 1864, while leading his Co. E, 3 Ark, Regt. Cavalry in a charge against the Federals. Entered the Army, Apr. 1861. "The eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms. Deut. 38:27.
Atlanta historian Franklin M. Garrett, who has recorded the old graves of Fulton County, points out a discrepancy in this wording
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EVIDENTLY the stonemason confused the date of
Clingman: birth with the date of his death, repeating April 23. "There was no fighting about Atlanta in April of 1864." Mr. Garrett says. Presumably the date should have been July, 1864"
Another Civil War authority, Wilbur G. Kurtz, says that evidently Clingman died on July 28, 1864. "He was probably under Col. Thomas Harrison's Command of Hume's Division of Wheeler's Cavalry. This force was engaged with the Union troops who crossed the river at Campbeliton on July 28, the day of the fierce fighting atound Ezra Church." Evidently Clingman's outfit was an outpost to protect the Atlanta and West Point Railroad at Fairburn, an invaluable escape route for the forces trying to hold Atlanta."
HE RECALLS that the town of Campbell was then the county seat of Campbellth County. The seat was changed after the Civil War to Fairburn, because no railroad runs to Campbell. Campbell County was a prosperous farming district, home of the Austells, Bomars, and Camps, still family names in this area
One story says Clingman mortally wounded, was found and cared for by an unnamed Negro slave. Another says Dr. Joseph Hornsby tended the young officer in his last hours, and when he died, buried him, on August 30, 1864, near the Hornsby family cemetery. Dr. Hornsby lived in that area from 1813 to 1890.
Clingman died at 22, after three years service in the Confederate Army. Evidently he enlisted soon after the firing on Fort Sumter, S.C. Why he was in the Arkansas Cavalry is net immediately known. Perhaps he ran away and joined that outfit, speculators propose. Others say that, with the depletion of Confederate forces, he may have been transferred.
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The Atlanta Journal • 22 Jun 1961, Thu • Page 54 • (Atlanta, Georgia) Newspapers.com ,
Civil War Grave Stirs Historians
Plans to transfer a young Confederate officer's lonely grave, after nearly a century, from a wooded area in old Campbell County to Westview Cemetery revives interest in this sad and typical tragedy incidental to the Battle of Atlanta.
The grave is near the old Hornsby family cemetery in that part of Fulton County that was once Campbell, near the river. Some years after the War Between the States, relatives of Lt. Edward Peter Clingman erected a granite marker at the place and enclosed the spot with an iron fence.
Today, 97 years later, the Army of Tennessee Department, Georgia Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans, plan to disinter the body and re-bury it with full military honors. Descendants and the governors of North Carolina and Arkansas are invited to participate.
THE SCV PLANS later to remove a lone Union soldier's grave, across the Chattahoochee River from where Clingman lies, to rest beside his former foe in the ceme-tery. The spot will be designated "The Blue and Gray Park."
The marker reads: "Lieut. Edward Peter Clingman, C.S.A., son of Dr. and Mrs. Henry Patillo Clingman,
of Goldsboro, N.C. Born Apr. 23, 1842, killed in battle near Atlanta, Ga., Apr. 23, 1864, while leading his Co. E, 3 Ark, Regt. Cavalry in a charge against the Federals. Entered the Army, Apr. 1861. "The eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms. Deut. 38:27.
Atlanta historian Franklin M. Garrett, who has recorded the old graves of Fulton County, points out a discrepancy in this wording
** *
EVIDENTLY the stonemason confused the date of
Clingman: birth with the date of his death, repeating April 23. "There was no fighting about Atlanta in April of 1864." Mr. Garrett says. Presumably the date should have been July, 1864"
Another Civil War authority, Wilbur G. Kurtz, says that evidently Clingman died on July 28, 1864. "He was probably under Col. Thomas Harrison's Command of Hume's Division of Wheeler's Cavalry. This force was engaged with the Union troops who crossed the river at Campbeliton on July 28, the day of the fierce fighting atound Ezra Church." Evidently Clingman's outfit was an outpost to protect the Atlanta and West Point Railroad at Fairburn, an invaluable escape route for the forces trying to hold Atlanta."
HE RECALLS that the town of Campbell was then the county seat of Campbellth County. The seat was changed after the Civil War to Fairburn, because no railroad runs to Campbell. Campbell County was a prosperous farming district, home of the Austells, Bomars, and Camps, still family names in this area
One story says Clingman mortally wounded, was found and cared for by an unnamed Negro slave. Another says Dr. Joseph Hornsby tended the young officer in his last hours, and when he died, buried him, on August 30, 1864, near the Hornsby family cemetery. Dr. Hornsby lived in that area from 1813 to 1890.
Clingman died at 22, after three years service in the Confederate Army. Evidently he enlisted soon after the firing on Fort Sumter, S.C. Why he was in the Arkansas Cavalry is net immediately known. Perhaps he ran away and joined that outfit, speculators propose. Others say that, with the depletion of Confederate forces, he may have been transferred.
Original grave of Clingman was off Fulton Industrial Boulevard where a farmer/plantation was once located. Later his family had him re-interred to the Westview cemetery in a special section just for him. Sons of the Confederacy purchased the marker. (Information from cemetery official)
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The Atlanta Journal • 22 Jun 1961, Thu • Page 54 • (Atlanta, Georgia) Newspapers.com ,
Civil War Grave Stirs Historians
Plans to transfer a young Confederate officer's lonely grave, after nearly a century, from a wooded area in old Campbell County to Westview Cemetery revives interest in this sad and typical tragedy incidental to the Battle of Atlanta.
The grave is near the old Hornsby family cemetery in that part of Fulton County that was once Campbell, near the river. Some years after the War Between the States, relatives of Lt. Edward Peter Clingman erected a granite marker at the place and enclosed the spot with an iron fence.
Today, 97 years later, the Army of Tennessee Department, Georgia Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans, plan to disinter the body and re-bury it with full military honors. Descendants and the governors of North Carolina and Arkansas are invited to participate.
THE SCV PLANS later to remove a lone Union soldier's grave, across the Chattahoochee River from where Clingman lies, to rest beside his former foe in the ceme-tery. The spot will be designated "The Blue and Gray Park."
The marker reads: "Lieut. Edward Peter Clingman, C.S.A., son of Dr. and Mrs. Henry Patillo Clingman,
of Goldsboro, N.C. Born Apr. 23, 1842, killed in battle near Atlanta, Ga., Apr. 23, 1864, while leading his Co. E, 3 Ark, Regt. Cavalry in a charge against the Federals. Entered the Army, Apr. 1861. "The eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms. Deut. 38:27.
Atlanta historian Franklin M. Garrett, who has recorded the old graves of Fulton County, points out a discrepancy in this wording
** *
EVIDENTLY the stonemason confused the date of
Clingman: birth with the date of his death, repeating April 23. "There was no fighting about Atlanta in April of 1864." Mr. Garrett says. Presumably the date should have been July, 1864"
Another Civil War authority, Wilbur G. Kurtz, says that evidently Clingman died on July 28, 1864. "He was probably under Col. Thomas Harrison's Command of Hume's Division of Wheeler's Cavalry. This force was engaged with the Union troops who crossed the river at Campbeliton on July 28, the day of the fierce fighting atound Ezra Church." Evidently Clingman's outfit was an outpost to protect the Atlanta and West Point Railroad at Fairburn, an invaluable escape route for the forces trying to hold Atlanta."
HE RECALLS that the town of Campbell was then the county seat of Campbellth County. The seat was changed after the Civil War to Fairburn, because no railroad runs to Campbell. Campbell County was a prosperous farming district, home of the Austells, Bomars, and Camps, still family names in this area
One story says Clingman mortally wounded, was found and cared for by an unnamed Negro slave. Another says Dr. Joseph Hornsby tended the young officer in his last hours, and when he died, buried him, on August 30, 1864, near the Hornsby family cemetery. Dr. Hornsby lived in that area from 1813 to 1890.
Clingman died at 22, after three years service in the Confederate Army. Evidently he enlisted soon after the firing on Fort Sumter, S.C. Why he was in the Arkansas Cavalry is net immediately known. Perhaps he ran away and joined that outfit, speculators propose. Others say that, with the depletion of Confederate forces, he may have been transferred.
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The Atlanta Journal • 22 Jun 1961, Thu • Page 54 • (Atlanta, Georgia) Newspapers.com ,
Civil War Grave Stirs Historians
Plans to transfer a young Confederate officer's lonely grave, after nearly a century, from a wooded area in old Campbell County to Westview Cemetery revives interest in this sad and typical tragedy incidental to the Battle of Atlanta.
The grave is near the old Hornsby family cemetery in that part of Fulton County that was once Campbell, near the river. Some years after the War Between the States, relatives of Lt. Edward Peter Clingman erected a granite marker at the place and enclosed the spot with an iron fence.
Today, 97 years later, the Army of Tennessee Department, Georgia Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans, plan to disinter the body and re-bury it with full military honors. Descendants and the governors of North Carolina and Arkansas are invited to participate.
THE SCV PLANS later to remove a lone Union soldier's grave, across the Chattahoochee River from where Clingman lies, to rest beside his former foe in the ceme-tery. The spot will be designated "The Blue and Gray Park."
The marker reads: "Lieut. Edward Peter Clingman, C.S.A., son of Dr. and Mrs. Henry Patillo Clingman,
of Goldsboro, N.C. Born Apr. 23, 1842, killed in battle near Atlanta, Ga., Apr. 23, 1864, while leading his Co. E, 3 Ark, Regt. Cavalry in a charge against the Federals. Entered the Army, Apr. 1861. "The eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms. Deut. 38:27.
Atlanta historian Franklin M. Garrett, who has recorded the old graves of Fulton County, points out a discrepancy in this wording
** *
EVIDENTLY the stonemason confused the date of
Clingman: birth with the date of his death, repeating April 23. "There was no fighting about Atlanta in April of 1864." Mr. Garrett says. Presumably the date should have been July, 1864"
Another Civil War authority, Wilbur G. Kurtz, says that evidently Clingman died on July 28, 1864. "He was probably under Col. Thomas Harrison's Command of Hume's Division of Wheeler's Cavalry. This force was engaged with the Union troops who crossed the river at Campbeliton on July 28, the day of the fierce fighting atound Ezra Church." Evidently Clingman's outfit was an outpost to protect the Atlanta and West Point Railroad at Fairburn, an invaluable escape route for the forces trying to hold Atlanta."
HE RECALLS that the town of Campbell was then the county seat of Campbellth County. The seat was changed after the Civil War to Fairburn, because no railroad runs to Campbell. Campbell County was a prosperous farming district, home of the Austells, Bomars, and Camps, still family names in this area
One story says Clingman mortally wounded, was found and cared for by an unnamed Negro slave. Another says Dr. Joseph Hornsby tended the young officer in his last hours, and when he died, buried him, on August 30, 1864, near the Hornsby family cemetery. Dr. Hornsby lived in that area from 1813 to 1890.
Clingman died at 22, after three years service in the Confederate Army. Evidently he enlisted soon after the firing on Fort Sumter, S.C. Why he was in the Arkansas Cavalry is net immediately known. Perhaps he ran away and joined that outfit, speculators propose. Others say that, with the depletion of Confederate forces, he may have been transferred.
Inscription
LIEUT. EDWARD PETER CLINGMAN, CSA
SON OF DR. & MRS. HENRY PATILLO CLINGMAN
OF GOLDSBORO, N.C. BORN APR. 23, 1842
KILLED IN BATTLE NEAR ATLANTA, GA.
APR 28, 1864 WHILE LEADING HIS COMPANY E, 3 ARK. REGT. CAVALRY, IN A CHARGE AGAINST THE FEDERALS. ENTERED THE ARM APR 1861
THE ETERNAL GOD IS THY REFUGE AND
UNDERNEATH ARE THE EVERLASTING ARMS
DEUT 33, 27
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