Adam Clark was born near Hillsboro, Ohio, about 1845. He enlisted as a private at Hillsboro on September 4, 1863, and was mustered into Company E, 12th Ohio Cavalry. In May 1864 he was wounded in action during the Battle of the Wilderness, Virginia, by a gunshot wound to the left leg. He was discharged for disability at Dennison, Ohio, on October 14, 1865, and received Civil War veteran's disability certificate No. 468,296. After the war he never married. He was a miner in Tombstone, Arizona, in the 1880's and appeared on the 1886 membership roster of Tombstone's Burnside Post, Grand Army of the Republic. He was a miner in Kernville, California, when he was admitted to the Pacific Branch, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, at Sawtelle, California, April 24, 1900, at age 55. He died at the Sawtelle Home of tuberculosis and was buried in the nearby Veterans' Cemetery. Adam Clark was survived by his brother, Mahlon Clark, of Hillsboro, Ohio.
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Adam Clark was born near Hillsboro, Ohio, about 1845. He enlisted as a private at Hillsboro on September 4, 1863, and was mustered into Company E, 12th Ohio Cavalry. In May 1864 he was wounded in action during the Battle of the Wilderness, Virginia, by a gunshot wound to the left leg. He was discharged for disability at Dennison, Ohio, on October 14, 1865, and received Civil War veteran's disability certificate No. 468,296. After the war he never married. He was a miner in Tombstone, Arizona, in the 1880's and appeared on the 1886 membership roster of Tombstone's Burnside Post, Grand Army of the Republic. He was a miner in Kernville, California, when he was admitted to the Pacific Branch, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, at Sawtelle, California, April 24, 1900, at age 55. He died at the Sawtelle Home of tuberculosis and was buried in the nearby Veterans' Cemetery. Adam Clark was survived by his brother, Mahlon Clark, of Hillsboro, Ohio.
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