Wilde Clayton Cleveland

He was a student at the University of Georgia from 1857-1860, then was admitted to the bar in Crawford County. He enrolled as Captain of Company E, 6th Georgia Infantry on 27 May 1861.

He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was elected Major of the Regiment, then Lieutenant Colonel on 26 March 1863. He resigned for disability on 16 June 1863.

He was a lawyer in Culloden, GA and a Baptist preacher. At his death in 1904 at age 68 he was pastor of the Sharon Primitive Baptist Church, Strouds Crossroads, Monroe County, GA, as had been his father Washington Cromwell Cleveland (1803-1869) before him.

Service information from Henderson.1 His wound at Sharpsburg from a casualty list for the Regiment printed in the Southern Recorder (Milledgeville, GA) on 21 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the Catalogue of the Trustees, Officers, Alumni and Matriculates of the University of Georgia (1906). Some records have him as Wyley Clayton Cleveland. His death place from his death notice in the Atlanta Constitution of 2 November 1904. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

04/09/1836; Crawford County, GA

10/31/1904; Culloden, GA; burial in Culloden Baptist Church (now Culloden City) Cemetery, Culloden, GA