Background
Lanier, Clifford Anderson was born on April 24, 1844 in Griffin, Georgia, United States. Son of Robert S. and Mary J. (Anderson) Lanier.
Lanier, Clifford Anderson was born on April 24, 1844 in Griffin, Georgia, United States. Son of Robert S. and Mary J. (Anderson) Lanier.
Educated Oglethorpe College, Midway, Georgia.
At end of sophomore year Being too young to be Southern soldier, in 1861, volunteered as Georgia soldier, April 1862. Served in Virginia; became signal officer of Blockade Runner Talisman, October 1864. Wrecked December 1864.
Went to Bermuda and Cuba.
Superintendent of City of Montgomery schools, 1885. Is real estate owner.
Author: Thorn Fruit (novel). The Mate’s Race with the Banshees.
The Doctor’s Legend. Wrote: Love and Loyalty at War, and other stories.
Dialect Poems, by Sidney and Clifford Lanier (in Poems of Sidney Lanier). Apollo and Keats on Browning, and Other Verses, 1902. Home: Montgomery, Alabama Deceased.
Married Wilhelmina Clopton, November 26, 1867.