BUST VIEW OF 62ND NORTH CAROLINA COLONEL – GEORGE W. CLAYTON

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CDV is a vignette bust view of Clayton in civilian clothes. Bottom center of the mount has a very nice period ink ID of “COL. CLAYTON.”

Clarity and contrast are good. Paper and mount are lightly toned.

Reverse has a photographer’s imprint for P. L. PERKINS. Though not listed it is known that Perkins was a photographer in Baltimore, Maryland. There is some collector information in modern pencil at bottom.

From the collection of the late William A. Turner.

On-line images found on findagrave.com confirm the ID of the image was that of Colonel George Wesley Clayton who was born in Ashville, North Carolina on June 4, 1841.

Clayton attended West Point from 1857 to 1861 resigning on the secession of North Carolina from the Union.

Returning South Clayton was appointed a cadet in the Artillery Corps Regular Army of the Confederate States in July of 1861. A short time later he was commissioned a 1st lieutenant on the staff of North Carolina Adjutant General James G. Martin.

On August 1, 1862 Clayton resigned his staff position to accept the lieutenant colonelcy of the 62nd North Carolina Infantry and was later made its colonel in June of 1864.

An overview of the 62nd’s service reads as follows:

The 62nd Infantry Regiment was formed at Waynesville, North Carolina, in July, 1862. Its members were raised in the counties of Haywood, Clay, Macon, Rutherford, Henderson, and Transylvania. The unit served in North Carolina, then in July, 1863, was assigned to General Gracie's Brigade and stationed at Cumberland Gap. Here many were surrendered in September, (Lt. Col. Clayton was absent sick at the time) but a number escaped from being captured. They returned to the Asheville area and in April, 1864 had 178 men present. The records show 443 men of the 62nd were prisoners at Camp Douglas. It continued the fight under Generals Breckinridge, Vaughn, and Williams in East Tennessee, then became a part of Colonel J.B. Palmer's command at Asheville in March, 1865. Later it disbanded near the French Broad River. The field officers were Colonels George W. Clayton and Robert G.A. Love, and Lieutenant Colonel Byron G. McDowell.

After the war Clayton returned to North Carolina where he went into his father’s railroad business building a number of lines in North and South Carolina. He later opened a mercantile business in Asheville, North Carolina under the name of Clayton, Ray & Burnet.

Clayton died in Waynesville, North Carolina on February 23, 1898 and is buried in the Clayton Family Cemetery in Asheville.  [AD] [ph:L]

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