Clinton William Page

In 1860 he was a 23 year old living with his parents and 5 siblings on their farm at Burnett/Beaver Dam in Dodge County, WI. He enlisted in Company D, 3rd Wisconsin Infantry on 25 April 1861. He was appointed Corporal (date not given). He was wounded in action at Cedar Mountain, VA in August 1862.

He was severely wounded in the knee and leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

He was treated at the Smoketown field hospital near the battlefield and his leg was amputated at the hip. He was discharged for wounds on 17 February 1863.

In 1870 he was a postal clerk living with Postmaster John Brinkerhof and family back at Burnett, WI, and by 1880 was living in Waupun, WI, occupation not given (Census status as maimed, crippled, or otherwise disabled). He was a landlord in Waupun in 1900 and was overseeing a farm there in 1910, then 73 years old.

Service basics from Bryant.1 Wound and hospital details from Nelson2 and a letter Lt. Hinkley wrote Oscar Gee on 21 September 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Anne Elizabeth Cooper (1838-1919) in February 1876 and they adopted a daughter.

07/1836 in OH

04/21/1919; Waupun, WI; burial in Burnett Union Cemetery, Burnett, WI