Just a mile down the old dirt road beyond the Clanton Plantation was a Civil War battlefield that claimed the lives of thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers. For months you could hear the cannon fire that echoed across the valley. Even the soldier's moans and groans from the heavy gunfire could also be heard throughout the valley. The Confederate soldiers held their own for a while but the Union soldiers were better trained and well equipped to outlast the Confederates which lead to their surrender to the Union army after three months and five days.
So many young soldiers barely eighteen years of age were taken from this world just before they would have the chance to reach their manhood and experience love and raise their own children to teach their children about life. The state made sure the battlefield was preserved to bring in extra income for the state but for some reason the next generation of Clanton's that lived in the Clanton plantation did not keep up the plantation and was forced to auction the plantation and the hundred acres along with it.