country with the ardor of a Crusader, entered the services of the Southern Confederacy without the slightest equivocation. His life was sacrificed for the South's ideals and purposes on the fields around Pine Bluff, Arkansas. When wounded and gradually dying, he was in the custody and ministration of a Union officer who came to honor and love him. This officer wrote the Corley family a letter replete with elegant appreciation of Corley as a man. Let the officer's own language express the esteem of a magnificent soul: "He was a brave soldier I know, for I fought him; he was a Christian: I know, because I saw him die."

James Clark, as stated heretofore, settled in Clarksville in 1833 and erected the first house which became the home of that great journalist, Charles DeMorse.