Clement H. Stevens


Clement Hoffman Stevens was a Confederate States Army brigadier general during the American Civil War . He designed and constructed the ironclad battery on Morris Island at the mouth of Charleston Harbor which was used in the bombardment of Fort Sumter at the outbreak of the Civil War. He was killed in action at the Battle of Peachtree Creek during the Atlanta Campaign.

Clement H. Stevens was born August 14, 1821 at Norwich, Connecticut. He was the son of a Southern naval officer and his wife who was from South Carolina. They moved the family to Florida when Clement was young and then moved to Pendleton, South Carolina in 1836.

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