Wall, younger brother of William Covington Wall, was a student in the Preparatory Department during the year his older brother attended the college. "Clay" Wall enlisted as a private with his brother in Co. D of the 23rd NC Infantry, the Pee Dee Guards, on May 30, 1861. He was promoted to sergeant on November 3, 1861. Wall was discharged from the company when he furnished a substitute on May 10, 1862. On March 1, 1864, he enlisted as a private in Co. A of the 4th NC Cavalry (also known as the 59th NC Infantry).
After the war, he farmed and was a merchant in Rockingham, NC. In 1876, he published a regimental history, Historical Sketch of the Pee Dee Guards. Wall died July 31, 1899 and is buried in the Leak Cemetery in Rockingham, Richmond County, NC.
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