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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

Charles Le Roy Clark

(1843 - 1924)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

The 18 year old son of Abel Newell Clark, editor and publisher of the Hartford Daily Courant, he enlisted as a Private in Company G, 13th Connecticut Infantry on 18 December 1861 but was discharged for disability on 30 June 1862. He enlisted again, as a Sergeant in Company A, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 12 July 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the right thigh in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He lost his leg to amputation and was again discharged for disability, on 12 March 1863.

After the War

By 1880 and for the rest of his life he lived in Brooklyn, NY - on Franklin Avenue, Lefferts Place, and Sullivan Street. He was in the hardware business to at least 1900, was a manager of a cutlery company in 1910, and had retired by 1920. His residence was at 228 Sullivan Street, Brooklyn at the time of his death in 1924.

References & notes

Basic casualty from Nelson.1 His service from the Record2 with the amputation detail from Lesley J. Gordon's research in his A Broken Regiment: The 16th Connecticut's Civil War (2014). His death and middle name from an announcement in the Brooklyn Eagle of 12 November 1924. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census for 1860-1920.

He married Cora Agusta Weatherby (1848-1939) in October 1869 in Brooklyn, and they had 9 children, all probably born in Brooklyn.

Birth

02/11/1843 in CT

Death

11/12/1924; Brooklyn, NY

Notes

1 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 162 [AotW citation 17487]

2 State of Connecticut, Adjutant General's Office, and AGs Smith, Camp, and Barbour, and AAG White, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States during the War of the Rebellion, Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1889, pp. 528, 620 [AotW citation 26989]

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