Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-08-21
Ex-CONFEDERATEs.

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{ 4 Beautiful and Touching Tribute to the
Memory Of Clifton T. Black.
The ex-Confederates of Audraln
county pursuant to call, met in the
Circuit Court room to-day, B. G..
Johnson, chairman, and 8. s. Craig,
secretary. Hon. W. H. Kennan,
chairman of the committee on res
olutions, reported as follows on G.
T. Black, deceased:
Your committee, appointed to
draft resolutions, &C., in memory
of Clifton T. Black, deceased, beg
leave to submit the following:
Clifton T. Black, the subject of
this sketch, was the son of Isaac
Black, who was born in Kentucky
and came to Boone county, Mo-,
and lived there a short time, and
from there came to Audraln county
shortly after its organization in
1887. He lived in Audrain county
until the day of his death. He
was good citizen, a faithful chris
tian and highly respected by all
who knew him.
The mother of Clifton Black was
a daughter of John Maupin, of
Boone county, "a man Of wealth
and an honored citizen. She was
loved and respected by her neigh
bors, and died a firm and devoted
christian.
Clifton T. Black was born in Au-
drain county, Missouri, on March
13, 1S41, on the farm and in the
house which he owned at his death
and in which he died. He was
reared on the farm and had only
such limited advantages of educa-
tion that the early country schools
OF his neighborhoed gave him.
In the early part of 1861, at the
age of twenty years, he enlisted as
a private soldier under Capt. Bob
Maupin in the Missouri State
Guard in a regiment commanded
by Col. Harvey Mckinney, of
Boone county, which command
was engaged in the battles of ''Dry
Wood" and of Lexington, Mo. land
in the hard fought battle of Pea
Ridge, Ark, where the regiment
suffered greatly by loss of men.
After serving faithfully in the
Missouri State Guard he enlisted
during the war in Company sc"
commanded by Capt. Steve Cooper,
of Howard county, and Bob
Maupin first lieutenant, of Boone
county, which company was part
of the Sixth Missouri Regiment, C.
S. A., commanded by Col. Erwine,
who afterwards was blown up and
killed at the siege of Vicksburg,
Mississippi. After the siege of
Vicksburg the Sixth and Second
Missouri Regiments were so depict
ed by loss of men in battle that the
two regiments were consolidated
and known as the Second and Sixth
consolidated and were commanded
by Coils. Flurnoy, Cooper, Carter
and Carter in the order named
until the close of the war.
The regiments as the 9th Mis-
souri, and the End and 9th consoli-
dated were in the following engage
ments Farmlngton, ,Iuka, Corinth,
Grand Gulf, Bayou Peer, Champion
Hills, Big Black, siege of Vicks-
burg, where the regiment was
twice blown up, in Mississippi;
at Rome, Georgia; through the re-
mainder of the campaign in Geor-
gia, ending at Atlanta !; then with
Hood through Tennessee, in the
rear of Sherman, storming and cap
turing several block houses; at
Altoona, also at Columbus, Frank
lin and Nashville, Tennessee, end
ing with the last battle at Fort
Blakely, in Alabama, near Mobile,
where TIE End and 9Th regiments,
consolidated, surrendered in 1865.
; He was with his regiment on duty
through all these severe campaigns
and hard fought battles as private
soldier, performing all of his ar
duous duties as such uncomplain-
ingly and faithfully, and was only
absent from his command q short
time while suffering from a pain
full wound received in his arm at
Champion Hills. In writing to
Col. Steve Cooper, of Howard
county, Ito whom we are indebted
for much of the information given
here) than whom no braver soldier,
better citizen or truer man ever
lived, and one of the surviving
colonels of the End and 9Th regi-
ments consolidated, in answer to
the question, "Was Clifton T.
Black a gallant soldier?" Col.
Steve Cooper's answer is the fol-
lowing laconic reply: " There
was no better soldier"
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