John Barr Clark

He was a Presbyterian pastor in Canonsburg, PA when he was called to the church in Allegheny City, Pittsburgh, PA in the summer of 1860.

The Rev. John B. Clark, at that time pastor of the Second United Presbyterian Church, in Allegheny [PA], and a clergyman of nearly eleven years' standing, at the close of his services on Sabbath, the 5th of August [1862], requested those of his congregation who were willing to enlist in the national armies, to meet him in the basement of the church on the following Monday evening. Many came, and in three days' time three companies were organized, of one of which, Mr. Clark was elected Captain.

He and his regiment arrived at the battlefield of Antietam on the morning of 18 September 1862 after a forced march from Frederick which began on the afternoon of the 17th.

He led the regiment in a charge on Marye's Heights at Fredericksburg in December. He and the Regiment mustered out at the expiration of their 9-month term of service on 13 May 1863, at Harrisburg, PA.

He returned to Allegheny and his congregation, and was on the Presbyterian board of missions to the freedmen of the South (July 1863-64).

His service basics from Bates,1 source also of the quote above. Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a photograph in the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection at Brown University.

He married Lydia Collins (1831-1868) in June 1853.

His face also graces the cover of the sheet music for "Colonel Clark's Grand Triumphant March" (1862) by J. T. Wamelink, online from the Huntington Library.

10/09/1827; Cadiz, OH

01/13/1872; Pittsburgh, PA; burial in Cadiz Union Cemetery, Cadiz, OH