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Federal (USV)

Captain

Timothy Dwight Clarke

(1816 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 106th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

He went to Lycoming County, PA in 1860 and ran a carriage manufacturing shop. He recruited the "Hughesville Guards" who became Company F, 106th Pennsylvania Infantry, and he mustered as their Captain on 14 August 1861.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam and died two days later.

References & notes

Basic information from Ward,1 who says he died on 18 September, and Bates.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

05/27/1816; Brookfield, NY

Death

09/19/1862; burial in Evergreen Cemetery, Owego, NY

Notes

1 Ward, Joseph R. C., History of the One-Hundred and Sixth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-1865 (2nd Ed.), Philadelphia: Grant, Faires & Rogers, 1906, pp. 103 - 113, 298 - 375 [AotW citation 5654]

2 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871, Vol. III, pg. 843 [AotW citation 21503]

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