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 [decorative delimiter] Class of 1825

Vol. I
p364 427

(Born Ga.)

Joseph Clay

(Ap'd Ga.)

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Military History. — Cadet at the Military Academy, July 1, 1821, to July 1, 1825, when he was graduated and promoted in the Army to

Bvt. Second Lieut., 6th Infantry, July 1, 1825.

Second Lieut., 4th Infantry, July 1, 1825.

Served: on frontier duty at Ft. Atkinson, Council Bluffs, Io., 1826; in garrison at Cantonment Clinch, Fla., 1827; in opening road from the Georgia State Line to Smyrna, Fla., 1827‑28; in garrison at Cantonment Brooke, Fla., 1828‑29, 1829‑30; in opening road from Cantonment Brooke to the Seminole Agency, Fla., 1830; in the Cherokee Nation, 1830; and in garrison at Ft. Mitchell, Ala., 1830‑32.

Died, July 8, 1832, at Ft. Gratiot, Mich.: Aged 25.

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