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(1837 - 1914)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry
Before Antietam
Going by Beach, in 1860 he was a 22 year old farmer living with his father and younger brother on their substantial farm in Bethel, CT. He enlisted on 19 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company E, First Connecticut Infantry on 22 April. He mustered out with them on 31 July. He enlisted again, on 6 September 1861, and mustered as a Corporal in Company A, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 25 September.
On the Campaign
He was "dangerously" wounded by a gunshot in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was promoted to Sergeant on 25 September 1862. He was admitted to the US Army General Hospital at Camp B in Frederick, MD on 5 December and transferred to Baltimore on 9 March 1863. He was discharged for disability on 14 May 1863.
After the War
In 1870 he was back in Bethel, a farm hand, living and working on his in-laws' place. By 1880 and to at least 1910 he farmed his own place (probably inherited on his father's death in 1875) in Bethel.
References & notes
His service from the Record.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List 2 and Major Ward's after-action report, as Samuel B Clark. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married the girl next door, Mary E. Osborn (1842-1888) in March 1864 and they had 2 children. Mary's brother Charles V Osborn was killed at Boteler's Ford near Shepherdstown, VA on 19 September 1862.
More on the Web
See a nice piece about his Bethel, CT house (and his in-law Osborn's place nearby), by town historian Patrick Tierney Wild online in The Bethel Grapevine in 2021.
Birth
1837 in CT
Death
04/25/1914; burial in Stony Hill Cemetery, Bethel, CT
1 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. 12, 331 [AotW citation 30670]
2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #171 [AotW citation 30671]