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Maffett

Robert Clayton Maffett (1836–1865), officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War

Robert Clayton Maffett

On August 26, 1864, while on picket line in Halltown, West Virginia, Lt. Col. Maffett and about 100 men of the 15th South Carolina were captured by Philip H. Sheridan's Federal cavalry.

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It was heavily engaged at Snodgrass Hill, where Union General William H. Thomas made his famous stand, thus saving the Union Army from total collapse.

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