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Confederate (CSV)

Lieutenant

James Caleb Clarke

(1839 - 1862)

Home State: South Carolina

Education: South Carolina College

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 15th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He was probably a student at South Carolina College to 1858, but not a graduate. Son of a wealthy physician and planter Henry Harrison Clarke (1813-1863), and going by Caleb, in 1860 he was a 21 year old living with his parents, 4 siblings, and 161 slaves in the Fairfield District, SC. He enrolled in Company C, 15th South Carolina Infantry by May 1862 and may have been appointed Lieutenant.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

References & notes

His service is not found in Salley1 or among the Compiled Service Records,2 for the regiment, online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His memorial is on Findagrave. Thanks to James Hull for the pointer to Clarke and his connection with the South Carolina College.

Birth

10/04/1839; Winnsboro, SC

Death

09/14/1862; Fox's Gap, MD

Notes

1 Salley, Alexander S., Jr., compiler, South Carolina Troops in Confederate Service, 3 vols., Columbia: Historical Commission of South Carolina, 1913-1930 [AotW citation 32272]

2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 32273]

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