Joseph Claypoole Clark, Jr.

Service Summary:
Brevet 2nd Lt 3rd US Artillery 1 July 1848;
2nd Lt 4th US Artillery 6 Jan 1849;
Promoted to 1st Lt 11 Dec 1850 and Capt 14 May 1861;
Retired 11 May 1864 with rank of Major (from 28 July 1866);

Cited by Brevet for gallantry on the Shenandoah Valley campaign and at Antietam.

Gen Nagle, the Brigade commander in his after-action report noted:

"... I cannot refrain, however, from speaking of Captain Clark, of Battery E, Fourth Artillery, who did excellent service, and received four wounds during the day."

Service details from Heitman.1 Image above from a CDV sent us by Vern DeLong, likely taken prior to Antietam. Mr DeLong also provided us a later image in which Clark sports a cane and Colonel's eagles.

See his headstone from a Clark Family site. For much more about Clark's service via letters Mr DeLong has brought to light, see this Deseret News article online (2009).

1825 in NJ

1906; burial in St Andrews, Mt Holly, NJ