Cyrus Curtis Clark

In 1860 he was a 30 year old physician in Middletown, Middlesex COunty, CT. He enrolled as Captain of Company H, 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery in May 1861, but was discharged to take the commission as Major of the 14th Connecticut Infantry, and mustered in with them on 23 August 1862.

He was with his regiment at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

He was wounded on 13 December 1862 at Fredericksburg, VA. He was discharged for disability on 28 February 1863 and was appointed Major and Paymaster US Volunteers the same day. He served to 1 November 1865.

He may have briefly enrolled as a Surgeon, US Army at San Francisco, CA on 16 July 1867, but by 1870 he was again a practicing doctor in Middletown, CT. In 1910 he was retired and living in South Bend, IN. By 1916 he was living in Niantic, CT, but on 15 May that year was admitted to the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers at Hampton, VA. He was discharged a year later, and in December 1919 was admitted to the Home in Dayton, OH. He left the Home in July 1921.

Basic information from Goddard1 with service data from Page.2, Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860, 1870, & 1910, and the Registers.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave. His photograph from one posted online by reenactors of Company G, 14th Connecticut; probably from one in the Massachusetts MOLLUS Collection.

He married Phebe Rebecca Lewis (1837-1900) in February 1854 and they had 2 daughters. He married again, Harriet A (?; 1843-1913). He married for the third time, Lena B. (?) before 1916.

04/17/1830; Wells, ME

07/14/1923; Elizabeth City, VA; burial in Old Willimantic Cemetery, Willimantic, CT