brigade previously led by Alexander P. Stewart consisting of the 18th, 32nd, 36th, 38th, and 58th Alabama regiments. Clayton was active in a number of subsequent campaigns and battles, including Chickamauga and Chattanooga. His brigade played a prominent role in several fights during the 1864 Atlanta Campaign. Following the Battle of New Hope Church, Clayton was promoted to major general and assigned command of Stewart's division in the Army of Tennessee, where it participated in the unsuccessful Franklin-Nashville Campaign. In April 1865, during the Carolinas Campaign, Clayton resigned his commission and returned home, a victim of chronic stress. Postbellum career With the fall of the Confederacy, Clayton resumed his law practice. In May 1866, he was elected as a circuit court judge. Like so many other former Confederates, he was removed from his office by the Reconstruction government. He was twice reelected as judge in 1874 and 1880. In 1886, Clayton accepted a position as the president of the University of Alabama, a role he held until his death in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in the fall of 1889. He is buried in Eufaula. See also List of American Civil War generals (Confederate) Notes References Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. . History of Clayton's Brigade Sifakis, Stewart. Who Was Who in the Civil War. New York: Facts On File, 1988. . Warner, Ezra J. Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1959. . External links Clayton and the 39th Alabama in the Kentucky Campaign Henry De Lamar Clayton Sr. papers, W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama Confederate States Army major generals People of Alabama in the American Civil War Members of the Alabama House of Representatives Alabama lawyers Presidents of the University of Alabama Emory and Henry College alumni 1827 births 1889 deaths 19th-century American politicians American lawyers admitted to the practice of law by reading law People from Pulaski County, Georgia 19th-century American lawyers