Frederick P. Clarke

In 1860 he was a 17 year old on his parent's prosperous farm in Orange County, NC. He enlisted on 18 June 1861 as a Private in Company G, 27th North Carolina Infantry.

He was slightly wounded in the thigh in action on 17 September 1862 at Sharpsburg.

He was furloughed from the hospital in Staunton, VA on 23 October and returned to duty on 29 January 1863. He was again wounded in action, in the right foot on 14 October 1863 at Bristoe Station, VA and in the arm on 15 June 1864 at Gray's Farm near Petersburg, VA. Described as "feeble" he was detailed to the Quartermaster's Department at Graham in Orange County, NC on 28 September 1864, returned to his company on 4 March 1865, and was again detailed on 17 March. He was paroled on 25 May 1865 in Greensboro, NC.

By 1870 he was a farm worker back in Orange County. In 1880 he was farming his own place at Cedar Grove - with a disabled arm - and was still there in 1900. By 1910 he had retired and was living at High Point in Guilford County, NC and in 1920 was living with his son Edwin and family in Greensboro.

His service from Wilson,1 the Roster,2 J.A. Graham's Descriptive Book of the Orange Guards in his Papers,3 and his Compiled Service Records,4 online from fold3, all as Fred P. Clark. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his marker has his birth on 6 April 1843.

He married Elizabeth Ann "Bettie" Houston (1842-1917) in November 1868 and they had a son then 4 daughters.

04/03/1843; Orange County, NC

06/23/1921; Greensboro, NC; burial in Fairfield Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Cheeks Township, Orange County, NC