Malcolm Clay

Malcolm Clay was a sergeant in the Confederate Army during the Second Great War. He commanded the First Richmond Howitzers, the battery which had once been commanded by Jake Featherston in the Great War. On a tour of the front in 1941, Featherston met Clay and realized that, despite Clay's commanding the battery, he held the rank of sergeant. Featherston commissioned Clay a lieutenant on the spot, declaring "In this here war, people who deserve to be promoted are going to get promoted"--in reference to Featherston's having been repeatedly passed up for promotion a generation earlier.