Clement Sulivane

Clement Sulivane was born on August 20, 1838, in Port Gibson, Mississippi.[1] His father was Vans Murray Sulivane and his mother, Octavia Van Dorn.[1] His maternal grandfather was Peter Aaron Van Dorn (1773–1837).[2] One of his uncles was Earl Van Dorn.[1][3] Another uncle was William Vans Murray.[1]

He was educated at a preparatory school in Northampton, Massachusetts.[1] He attended Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, and graduated from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1857.[1] He studied the Law, and was admitted to the bar in 1860.[1]

During the American Civil War of 1861–1865, he served in the Confederate States Army as an aide-de-camp to his uncle, Earl Van Dorn.[1][3][4] He later wrote The Fall of Richmond.[1]

Sulivane worked as a lawyer and journalist in Cambridge, Maryland.[1][3] He then served in the Maryland Senate from 1878 to 1880.[5]

Sulivane married Delia Bayly Hayward, the daughter of William Richard Hayward and Eliza Ennalls Eccleston.[1] They had three children:

• Earl Van Dorn Sulivane (1869–1950).[1]
• Vans Murray Sulivane (1873–1938).[1]
• Ruth Sulivane (1874–1953).[1]

Sulivane died on November 9, 1920, in Cambridge, Maryland.[1]