Career
He was honored with the award on 11 June 1895. Clark was born in Chatham, New York on 10 April 1842. Before the onset of the Civil War he was a carriage maker.
He enlisted into the 125th New York Infantry.
After this event he was promoted to color sergeant. Clark also participated in the Battle of the Wilderness in May 1864.
Despite being shot in the leg, he kept on fighting, an act which led to his field promotion to 2nd Lieutenant. He mustered out of the service on 4 September 1865, at the conclusion of the war.
Clark married Harriet Emeline Johnson, with whom he had three children.
Following the war he was a proprietor at an opera house. He was later Keeper of the Bureau of Military Services. He died on 18 April 1913 and his remains are interred at the Albany Rural Cemetery in New New York
