Marcus F. Wright's Civil War Bios - Major-General William T. Clark

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                                   CLARK
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   CLARK, MAJOR-GENERAL WILLIAM T., conspicuous on several occasions
   during the siege of Vicksburg under General Grant, was a native of
   Connecticut. His family afterward took up residence in Iowa. Little is
   recorded concerning his early life and education. At the outbreak of
   hostilities he joined the Union army, and proved his military capacity
   so well that he was selected for the responsible position of
   adjutant-general and chief of staff to General Grant. He served with
   the Seventeenth Army Corps, holding rank as lieutenant-colonel.
   During the progress of events before Vicksburg his conduct attracted
   such favorable attention among his superiors that he was, within a
   short space of time gazetted colonel, brigadier-general, and brevet
   major-general. General Clark accompanied General Sherman in his march
   through Georgia, and from Savannah to Washington, being in command of
   the First Brigade, Third Division, Fifteenth Army Corps. He was
   mustered out of the volunteer service on February 1, 1866.