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Federal (USV)

Private

William W. Clark

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Before Antietam

From Plainfield, CT, he enlisted on 6 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 23 September.

On the Campaign

He was slightly wounded by a gunshot to his leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #2 in the US Hotel in Frederick, MD on 2 October and was discharged for disability there on 18 January 1863.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1. Wound and hospital details from Major Ward's after-action report and the Patient List.2

He may be the William Warren Clark (1840-1910) buried in Pawtucket, RI.

Notes

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, p. 346 [AotW citation 30773]

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 30774]

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