| Summary: | (Pre-war photograph retouched to indicate rank of colonel. -- W. Davis) U.S. Senator at the start of the Civil War. Elected colonel of the 25th North Carolina Infantry in August 1861 and promoted to brigadier general in May 1862. Major campaigns and battles include Charleston, the Wilderness, Drewry's Bluff, Cold Harbor (wounded), and Petersburg. After a lengthy convalescence, he rejoined his old brigade shortly before the surrender in 1865. Clingman practiced law in North Carolina after the war. He died there in November 1897 and is buried in Asheville, North Carolina. Sources: Boatner, Mark M. The Civil War Dictionary. New York: Vintage Books, 1988. Davis, William C., ed. The Confederate General. Vol. I. National Historical Society, 1991.
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