During the War of 1812, he commanded a company in the 3rd U.S. Infantry and served in Louisiana and Plattsburg, New York.
He died in Milledgeville, Georgia and is buried at Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia.
Clinch County, Georgia, is named after him as is Fort Clinch on Amelia Island, Florida.
He had several sons who fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Col. Duncan Lamont Clinch, Jr. commanded the 4th Georgia Cavalry and fought at the Battle of Olustee in Florida and in the Atlanta Campaign. His father-in-law was Robert Anderson, the U.S. commander at Fort Sumter when it fell.
Another son was Captain Nicholas Baynard Clinch (1832-1888) who commanded Clinch's Light Battery, also called Clinch's Artillery Company, part of his older brother's 4th Georgia Cavalry. he was also an inventor.
--Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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