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Historical Highway MarkersCpl. Clinton Greaves (1855-1906)JE-8
Clinton Greaves (or Graves), Medal of Honor recipient, was born in Madison County, very likely into slavery. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1872 and served as a corporal in Co. C, 9th Cavalry. On 24 Jan. 1877 in the Florida Mountains of New Mexico, he was part of a small detachment sent to persuade about 50 Apache Indians to return to a reservation. The Apaches surrounded the cavalrymen until, in hand-to-hand combat, Greaves created a gap through which his companions escaped. On 26 June 1879, Pres. Rutherford B. Hayes awarded him the Medal of Honor for “extraordinary heroism.” A U.S. military base in the Republic of Korea was later named Camp Greaves in his honor.
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References/Bibliographic Citation: “Greaves, Clinton,” African American National Biography, vol. 3 (Oxford University Press, 2008). Clinton Greaves Medal of Honor Citation, Hall of Valor, www.militarytimes.com Frank N. Schubert, Black Valor: Buffalo Soldiers and the Medal of Honor, 1870-1898 (1967). William H. Leckie, The Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Negro Cavalry in the West (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1968). Register of Enlistments, 21 Nov. 1872. U.S. Census, 1900 Bertha Greaves (widow), Pension Application (1922) |