Civil War Records of Charles D. Clark

Service

Co. Regiment / Ship From To Residence/ Credit Occupation Notes
B 2nd Wis. Inf. Private; May 18, 1861 discharged disabled June 17, 1863     wounded at Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862

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
B 2nd Wis. Inf. Aug. 21, 1863 Invalid   20 835 Mass.  

Pension File (select pages from the National Archives):  6 pages (PDF*)

Grand Army of the Republic

Recorded as member no. 114 in the membership roster of Isaac Davis Post No. 138 G.A.R., Acton, Massachusetts (Acton Memorial Library archives, 92.2.1). 

G.A.R. Personal War Sketch

Death

Date Charles Danforth Clark, born in Patterson, N.J. to John Clark and Susan Beach, died December 19, 1907
Place Chelmsford, Mass.
Age

75 years, 1 month, 6 days
Cause pneumonia
Obituary  
Funeral  
Burial

Forefather's Cemetery, Chelmsford, Mass.

(Chelmsford death record, "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910," vol. 1907/30, p. 103 [image], AmericanAncestors.org).
Survived by  

Additional Information

Charles Clark married Charlotte H. Currier, who died in Chelmsford, Mass., August 1, 1896. They had one daughter, Francis Clark, born June 17, 1869 (pension file).

Charles D. Clark is recorded in the 1890 special veterans census as a resident of Chlemsford, Mass. ("1890 Veterans Schedules," Ancestry.com).

Charles [D.] Clark, age 68, retired, a widow, born in New Jersey, is recorded as an inhabitant of Chelmsford, Mass. in the 1900 federal census, in household (dwelling no. 257/265) with his daughter Francis Clark, age 30 ("1900 United States Federal Census," Ancestry.com).

 

 

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