Civil War Records of John W. Clark, alias Henry Donaldson

Service

Co. Regiment/Ship From To Residence Occupation Notes
A 1st MHA Aug. 8, 1862 July 8, 1864 Ipswich shoemaker

wounded May 19, 1864, Spottsylvania, Va.

(1890 special census lists service dates in 1st MHA as Feb. 8, 1865 to Oct. 20, 1865).
C 62nd MVI April 5, 1865 May 5, 1865 Salem shoemaker  
USN Catskill; Ohio; Wabah, Vermont July 1, 1863 Aug. 15, 1864 credit Worcester  

 

Service Record (select pages from the National Archives): x
Service Ledger (Town of Acton): x

Pension

Co. Regiment Date Filed Type App. No. Cert. No. State Beneficiary/Remarks
      Invalid 1141 562 994 940 Mass,  
      Widow 1046 096 802 029 Mass. Mary Clark

Pension File (select pages from the National Archives):  first 100 pages (PDF)

Grand Army of the Republic

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Death

Date April 11, 1915
Place Chelsea Soldiers Home, Mass.
Age 71
Cause valvular heart disease
Obituary  
Funeral  
Burial Mt. Hope Cemetery, Acton, Mass.
Survived by  

Additional Information

John H. Clark is recorded in the 1890 special veterans census as a resident of Acton ("1890 Veterans Schedules," Ancestry.com).

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From: Annual Report of the Trustees of the Soldiers' Home in Massachusetts at Chelsea, Massachusetts  (Soldiers Home, Chelsea, 1915), p. 36 (Digitized by Google Books at:  http://books.google.com/books?id=NuGgAAAAMAAJ):

JOHN CLARK, alias HENRY DONALDSON, Cochituate, Mass.:  Age 71; 2d Class Fireman, U.S. Navy, "Catskill"; Priv. Co. A, Ist Battalion Mass. Heavy Artillery; born in Lowell, Mass. Admitted to the Home, April 5, 1915; died April 11, 1915, of valvular heart disease. Buried in West Acton Cemetery, West Acton, Mass.

 

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