Stephen Albert Clark, son of Hazard B. and Elizabeth Wilbur Clark, was born in Richmond, R.I., April 11, 1834. He had five brothers and four sisters, of whom survive only Moses Clark, of Company C, a resident of North Centerville, R.I., Mary Ann Reynolds, of Wyoming, and Mrs. Burrill W. Andrews, of Hope Valley. Albert was a cotton carder by occupation, and resided during the eleven years prior to his enlistment at Rockville, R.I. He was married Nov. 5, 1858, to Hannah A Wright, who now resides with her youngest son, Charles H. Clark, at Old Mystic, Conn. The others are Stephen A. Clark, of Central Village, and Edgar Clark, of Glasgow, all in the same state. Just before the Battle of Pegram House, Sept. 30, 1864, while the men were waiting the opening of the fray, lounging carelessly around, Albert called out to three comrades: 'Let us have a game of Old Farmer's Lein!' In less than an hour he was killed. His brother, Moses, says: 'A flying bullet broke Stephen's arm, and, in about five minutes, another bullet went through his heart, when he fell out of my arms dead.' He was buried on the spot, but three or four days later his body was removed to a burial lot whither the remains of many others were brought and interred. His family has erected a memorial stone in Wood River Cemetery, R.I., but his ashes still rest in Virginia. (from The Seventh Regiment of Rhode Island Volunteers in the Civil War, 1862 - 1865 by William P. Hopkins, Snow & Farnham Printers, Providence, RI, 1903)
Stephen Albert Clark, son of Hazard B. and Elizabeth Wilbur Clark, was born in Richmond, R.I., April 11, 1834. He had five brothers and four sisters, of whom survive only Moses Clark, of Company C, a resident of North Centerville, R.I., Mary Ann Reynolds, of Wyoming, and Mrs. Burrill W. Andrews, of Hope Valley. Albert was a cotton carder by occupation, and resided during the eleven years prior to his enlistment at Rockville, R.I. He was married Nov. 5, 1858, to Hannah A Wright, who now resides with her youngest son, Charles H. Clark, at Old Mystic, Conn. The others are Stephen A. Clark, of Central Village, and Edgar Clark, of Glasgow, all in the same state. Just before the Battle of Pegram House, Sept. 30, 1864, while the men were waiting the opening of the fray, lounging carelessly around, Albert called out to three comrades: 'Let us have a game of Old Farmer's Lein!' In less than an hour he was killed. His brother, Moses, says: 'A flying bullet broke Stephen's arm, and, in about five minutes, another bullet went through his heart, when he fell out of my arms dead.' He was buried on the spot, but three or four days later his body was removed to a burial lot whither the remains of many others were brought and interred. His family has erected a memorial stone in Wood River Cemetery, R.I., but his ashes still rest in Virginia. (from The Seventh Regiment of Rhode Island Volunteers in the Civil War, 1862 - 1865 by William P. Hopkins, Snow & Farnham Printers, Providence, RI, 1903)
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