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- James Brown Clay, junior, enlisted in the Confederate Army in 1862, and served on the staff of General John C. Breckinridge during the greater part of the war. Soon after the battle of Chickamauga he ran the blockade from Wilmington, North Carolina, via Bermuda and Halifax, to Montreal, Canada, reaching there in time to see his father before his death. In the following spring he returned to the Confederacy and rejoined General Breckinridge. When the latter became Secretary of War, Lieutenant Clay joined the staff of General Echols, serving until the close of the war. He married, January 20, 1880, Eliza, daughter of Boone Ingles, of Lexington. Taken from "The Clay Family", p. 210.
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