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Federal (USV)

Private

Clark Stilwell

(c. 1843 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 57th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 17 year old farm worker on the John Olivet farm at Poughkeepsie, NY. Giving his age as 20, he enlisted there on 20 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company K, 57th NY Infantry on 4 September.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the ankle and calf, bones broken, in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #5 in Frederick, MD on 24 September and died there of wounds on 9 October 1862.

After the War

He was reinterred from Frederick to the new Antietam National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History,1 which has him as Stillwell. His service from the State of New York.2 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.3 Personal details from the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1843 in NY

Death

10/09/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869 [AotW citation 4229]

2 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, Issue 26 (for 1900), pg. 127 [AotW citation 7755]

3 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 #301 [AotW citation 30740]

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