[281] Clemens was a cousin of “Mark Twain.” He was fond of drink, and once when William L. Yancey asked him not to drink so much, he answered that he was obliged to drink his genius down to a level with Yancey’s.
[282] N. Y. Tribune, May 23, 1865. See Smith, “Debates,” Index.
[283] O. R., Ser. I, Vol. X, Pt. II, pp. 167, 168, 174, 178. Clemens had been captain, major, and colonel of the Thirteenth United States Infantry. From 1849 to 1853 he was United States Senator. He died in Philadelphia a few years after the war. Garrett, “Public Men of Alabama,” pp. 176-179.
[284] Brewer, “Alabama,” p. 364.
[285] O. R., Ser. I, Vol. LII, Pt. II, p. 35.
[286] O. R., Ser. I, Vol. X, Pt. II, pp. 161-163.
[287] “Northern Alabama Illustrated,” p. 327; Acts of Alabama, 1862, p. 225; Moore, “Anecdotes, Poetry, and Incidents of the War,” p. 215.
[288] Lewis became the second “Radical” or scalawag governor of Alabama, serving from 1872 to 1874. Miller, “Alabama,” pp. 260, 261; Brewer, “Alabama,” p. 368.
[289] O. R., Ser. II, Vol. VIII, p. 86.
[290] O. R., Ser. I, Vol. XXX, Pt. III, pp. 750-751.