The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-15
INFERRED AT BoNAvENruRE.
Maj. N. Bayard Clinch Laid to Rest IN
the Tomb of His Fathers.


the Tomb of His Fathers.
All that was mortal of Maj n. Bayard
Clinch has been laid away in the family
burial vault at Bonaventure. His brother,
Col. J. H. NJ. Clincb. of No. l67 South
Broad street, brought the remains from
Green Cove Springs, Fla, where he died
Saturday, for commitment to the tomb OF
the Clinches. 1t was intended TO have held
! the funeral services in this city, but the
many friends that Maj. Clinch had made in
ten or twelve years of assoc. alton with the
people of Green Cove Springs begged that
the last sad rite might be had among the
people who loved him so well, and on Mon
day last the funeral services were held
there.
Mai. Clinch contracted a violent cold on
Tuesday of last week, which developed it
self by a violent chill. Pneumonia
IN its most fatal stage followed,
| and Saturday night he died he
was a native of Georgia, the son of
the late Gen. Cinch, so we'll and favoraby
known from his connection with the early
Florida wars, and who commanded the
southern Department of Georgia, Florida
and Louisiana Maj. Bayard Clinch was
one OF eight children, native OF Georgia,
and at one time large landed proprietor.
owning that part of Hutchinson Island, now
owned by the city of Savannah AT the
time of his death he was interested in Flor
ida lands, and was connected with the
Green Cove paper in an editorial capacity.
He was a graduate of the University of
South Carolina. He was brave officer in
the Confederate service, the early part of
which he spent in the Virginia campaigns,
but returning to this section he raised
battery of light artillery and was attached
to the Fourth cavalry, under his brother,
Col. Duncan i. Clinch. The signal bravery
of Mai. Clnch at the surrender of Fort Nc
Allister, will be remembered as long as the
heroic struggles of the war period shall be a
part of the history of the country
The enemy, by a flank movement, APP
preached the fort from the rear, where it
was impossible to train the guns
against them. Maj. Clnch stood upon the
parapet, with his sword at rest, when nearly
every other one of the defenders OF the fort
had taken refuge from the CALLING fire of
the sharp-shoOters. Resistance was hope
less, and as he stood prepared to surrender
honorably to overwhelming numbers he
was struck three times by the enemy'S bull
lets. His Lieutenant and Orderly Sergeant
were shot down, and as he looked upon his
fallen companions wantonly struck down
when resistance had been abandoned, he
drew his side arms and emptied his revolver
upon tie foe. Then as they clambered over
the parapet he drew his sword. engaged in
nanu-JO-nanu cOnUlcG ana received eleven
bayonet wounds before he fell.
An incident is related in connection with
the defense of Fort McAllister which has
never been in print. The day following the
fight a soldier from the Federal ranks Wis
tied the cabin where the wounded Confed-
'erate officer lay, and admitted that one Of
the bayonet wounds he had inflicted him
self, saying, II had to do it TO save my Colo
ners life" The soldier said that
he had received days fur
Tough and had killed a squirrel,
and begged that he might prepare with his
own hand some soup for his woundei but
brave foe of the day before. He was per-
mitted to do so and left, tearfully praying for
Maj. Clinch's recovery. The wounded man
was afterward taken to Beaufort where he
lay three months between life and death,
but the very best surgical attention was
given him. and at the close of the war he
was taken home to the old plantation on the
Satilla river by his brother. 1t was year
though, before he gained much strength,
and his brother says that he never fully re-
covered his physical vigor.
The deceased is said by those who best
knew him to have been a man of absolute
integrity, and who in boyhood and man
hood never told a falsehood and who re-
coiled from falsehOod i'll Others. He was
never married and at the time of his decease
was in his 55th year.