 In terms of percentage of the population, no war has ever  engaged so many of the men of this nation or this area.Clinton county had over 2,000 men involved and a high percentage of casualties.One of Charlotte's best remembered Civil War veterans, the last local survivor of that conflict was Theo Kleppien who was born in Holstein, Germany on Sept. 7, 1847 and came to America with his parents at the age of 10.