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Moses fought with the 7th Tennessee Cavalry USA during the
Civil War.
CLARK, NELSON C, Companies E & C, pvt, enlisted in
Huntingdon, TN on 6/28/62 and mustered on 8/11/62 at
Humboldt, TN (same as James Clark above). He was due a
$100 bounty for enlistment. Clark was 24 years old,
married to Elizabeth Frances Hammett (1861) and a resident
of Buena Vista, TN. He was captured at the battle of
Trenton on 12/20/62 and spent time in parole camp at Camp
Chase, OH awaiting exchange. His muster roll says
"exchanged but not returned to duty." He did return,
however, since he was captured with the regiment at Union
City, TN on 3/24/64 and ended up in Andersonville Prison.
Clark was vaccinated while in prison with what he believed
was poisonous vaccine from which he contracted gangrene.
(His muster roll says he had scrobutus.) He was exchanged
through Savannah, GA on 11/18/64 and arrived at the
hospital in Baltimore, MD on 11/27/64. Transferred to the
hospital in Jeffersonville, IN, he was discharged on
6/13/65 or 7/1/65 due to disability. After the war he
resided in Maple Creek, TN, where he applied for an invalid
pension (#190,684/199,152). In his pension application in
1874 he was 33 years old, 5'9" tall, fair complexion, black
hair, black eyes. He died on 2/17/76. His wife, Elizabeth
F, applied for a widow's pension in 1876, #226,779/179,004.
She later moved to Grayson Co, TX.5 3 6
Sources:
- 1870 Federal Census, Carroll County, Tennessee page 443
- Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934
- THE 7TH TENNESSEE CAVALRY USA (Originally 2nd West Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry) Peggy Scott Holley
- Ancestry.com. Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002
- The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, National Park Service
- Nelson Clark Civil War Service File
