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CLIFT, Moses H.<\/strong>, attorney<\/strong>; born at Soddy, Hamilton County Tenn., Aug. 25, 1836; son of William <\/strong>and Nancy (Brooks) CLIFT<\/strong>; English, Scotch and Irish descent; married Florence PARROTT<\/strong> Jun 27, 1883; is a Mason (Knight Templar); was a major in the Confederate Army, serving first on the staff of Col. Jas. STARNES<\/strong>, commanding brigade, and after the death of Col. STARNES<\/strong> on Gen. Geo. DIBRELL\u2019s<\/strong> staff, who succeeded Col. STARNES<\/strong> as commander of FORREST<\/strong>\u2019s old brigade; was slightly wounded in the second battle at Fort Donaldson, 23 bullets having passed through his clothes in this engagement; was at the battle of Parker\u2019s Cross-roads and several other engagements in West Tenn. With FORREST<\/strong>\u2019s command in the winter of 1862 and 1863; at the battle of Thompson\u2019s Station, Chickamauga, Knoxville, with LONGSTREET, and numerous engagements during the occupancy of East Tenn. during the winter of 1864; and in the various engagements of Johnson\u2019s Army from Dalton to Atlanta; was with Gen. WHEELER\u2019s <\/strong>command in the raid from Atlanta by way of Knoxville into Middle Tenn. and Ala. in the fall of 1864 and again with FORREST<\/strong> and was with FORREST<\/strong>\u2019s command at Athens, Ala., Sulphor TRUSSELL and other engagements on this raid, then with WHEELER<\/strong>\u2019s command after SHERMAN<\/strong> resisted his march through Georgia, North and South Carolina and saw SHERMAN<\/strong>\u2019s army burning Columbia, S. C.; was in the battle of Bentonville, N. C., where he was promoted to the rank of Colonel on Gen. DIBRELL<\/strong>\u2019s staff, who commanded DAVIS<\/strong>\u2019 Escort from Greensboro, N. C., to Washington, Ga., was with Gen. DIBRELL<\/strong> at the last two meeting of the cabinet held; was with the command when it surrendered at Washington, Ga.; resumed the practice of law at Chattanooga, Tenn., 1865.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City:\u00a0 Chattanooga CLIFT, Moses H., attorney; born at Soddy, Hamilton County Tenn., Aug. 25, 1836; son of William and Nancy (Brooks) CLIFT; English, Scotch and Irish descent; married Florence PARROTT Jun 27, 1883; is a Mason (Knight Templar); was a major in the Confederate Army, serving first on the staff of Col. Jas. STARNES, commanding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,4407,4419],"tags":[686,587,705],"class_list":{"0":"post-956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hamilton","7":"category-surname-c","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-brooks","10":"tag-clift","11":"tag-parrott","12":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14890,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions\/14890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}