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Federal (USV)

Private

Justus John Clark

(1843 - 1890)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 106th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

He enlisted as Private in Company K, 106th Pennsylvania Infantry on 2 January 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the left arm and side in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at the Hoffman Farm Hospital, Sharpsburg. He was discharged, date not given.

After the War

By 1883 he was living in Canton, Bradford County, PA and receiving a pension of $18 per month for "paralysis left arm".

References & notes

Casualty information from Nelson.1. Service from Ward.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Harriet S. Andrus in 1864, and his discharge is among the Andrus Family papers at the Library of Congress.

Birth

1843

Death

1890; burial in East Canton Cemetery, Canton, PA

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. 163 [AotW citation 17496]

2 Ward, Joseph R. C., History of the One-Hundred and Sixth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-1865 (2nd Ed.), Philadelphia: Grant, Faires & Rogers, 1906, pg. 371 [AotW citation 17497]

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