CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: CLAYTON B. MILFORD - Smith County, TX

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson

CLAYTON B. MILFORD.

Clayton B. Milford, born in South Carolina in 1847. Removed to Texas in 
1870 and settled in Smith county. En­tered the service in company G, Orr' 
5 regiment of South Carolina Rifles and gave the South three years of 
devoted service in the Northern Army of Virginia. He was captured 
April 2, 1865, just one month before the surrender of Gen. Lee at 
Appomatox. He was in the battles of the Wilder-ness, Spotsylvania, Deep 
Bottom, Riddles Shop, Dinwiddie, and the campaigns around Petersburg 
and Richmond. In 1872 he was married to Miss Ellen Kay, who died in 1882. 
A good citizen and leading man of his neighborhood. His post office is 
Winona, Texas.