SAMUEL CLARK married LOUISA JANE WHEELER Dec 6, 1857.
Samuel was born Sep 11, 1832 and died Nov 27, 1893 son of Francis A. Clark and Nancy A. Suit.
Louisa was born Mar 8, 1836 and died Dec 8, 1898 daughter of Benjamin Franklin Wheeler and Elizabeth Robertson.
Samuel Clark was drafted into the Confederate Army, serving from July 1862 until April 1864. He was a private under Captain Turner in Company E of the 23rd Regiment of North Carolina Troops. They called themselves "The Granville Plough Boys" but would quickly become men as they became part of "Stonewall 's Foot Cavalry."
As Major General George McClellan was moving toward Richmond in 1862 General Robert E. Lee moved his army north to shift the war from war torn Virginia. "Although McClellan moved too slowly on Sept. 14 to break through the gaps in South Mountain and cut off the scattered parts of the Confederate army he did force Lee to decide to give battle sooner than he wanted and with fewer troops than he intended.
Samuel Clark was taken prisoner in the fighting at South Mountain, Maryland three days before the Battle of Antietam. He was held prisoner at Ft. McHenry and Ft. Monroe but was paroled by the Army of the Potomac on October 3, 1862. He returned to his regiment and was admitted to the hospital called "Chimborazo Hospital Number 4" from October 24, 1862 until November 10, 1862 with "nostaligia". He must have decided to go home to recuperate. The records at first show him "deserted" but the company muster roll for January to February 1863 showed him "now at home sick".
He had returned to duty by April 30, 1863 just in time for the battle that has been called Lee's greatest victory - The Battle of Chancellorsville. The Confederates were outnumberd more than 2 to 1 and the fighting lasted for five days. The most intense fighting developed on the 3rd of May across a densely wooded area known as the Wilderness of Spotsylvania. Lee turned his victory there into an agresive campaign that led a few weeks later to the battle of Gettysburg.
But Samuel Clark would not participate in that campaign. Once again, he was in the hospital. On May 3, 1862, in the Battle of Chancellorsville he had received wounds that resulted in the amputation of his leg.
His company's muster roll for April 1, 1864 showed that Samuel Clark was furloughed March 27, 1864 then replaced on the "retired" list on April 23. For his service at the Battle of Chancellorsville he was awarded the Badge of Honor.
It was told that Samuel Clark "fought in the Civil War and lost a leg. It happened in the big battle at Chancellorsville, Virginia. Louisa Jane was the most couragious woman that you can think of. She walked all the way to Virginia to all the battlefields until she found her husband. She discovered that he had lost his leg. After she had nursed him back to health and he was able to walk, they walked all the way from Virginia to North Carolina. They followed the railroad tracks.
Louisa Jane later died of rheumatism, which is probably called arthritis today. She had it so bad she was in a wheelchair.
On July 6, 1885 at the age of 53 and a resident of Dutchville, in Granville County, North Carolina Samuel applied for a pension as the result of his disability. He stated that he had received wounds that had resulted in the amputation of his right leg above the knee. He also stated that he was "unable to wear a wooden or cork leg on account fo the condition of the stump and has to go on crutches". He was approved for a pension.
Generation No. 1
1. SAMUEL7 CLARK (FRANCIS A6, CHARLES SOTHERON5, LEONARD4 CLARKE, FRANKLIN (FRANCIS)3, JOHN2, ROBERT1) was born September 11, 1832 in Granville Co., NC, and died November 27, 1893 in Granville Co., NC. He married LOUISA JANE WHEELER December 06, 1857 in Granville Co., NC, daughter of BENJAMIN WHEELER and ELIZABETH ROBERTSON. She was born March 08, 1836 in Granville Co., NC, and died December 08, 1898 in Granville Co., NC.
Children of SAMUEL CLARK and LOUISA WHEELER are:
i. FRANCES8 CLARK, b. Abt. 1859, Granville Co., NC; d. Bef. 1880.
2. ii. WILLIAM LEBBEOUS CLARK, b. February 15, 1861, Granville Co., NC.
3. iii. LOUETTA ADELAIDE 'ETTA' CLARK, b. June 30, 1864, Granville Co., NC; d. June 06, 1953, Stem, Granville Co., NC.
4. iv. VELEARA WILKERSON CLARK, b. May 12, 1870, Granville Co., NC; d. November 1943, Granville Co., NC.
5. v. ESPA SUIT CLARK, b. August 10, 1872, Granville Co., NC.
6. vi. SAMUEL MARCH CLARK, b. March 1874, Creedmoor, Granville Co., NC; d. 1957.
Generation No. 2
2. WILLIAM LEBBEOUS8 CLARK (SAMUEL7, FRANCIS A6, CHARLES SOTHERON5, LEONARD4 CLARKE, FRANKLIN (FRANCIS)3, JOHN2, ROBERT1) was born February 15, 1861 in Granville Co., NC. He married (1) JANIE UNKNOWN. He married (2) MARY S HESTER. She was born 1870, and died Bef. 1920.
Children of WILLIAM CLARK and JANIE UNKNOWN are:
i. AUBREY9 CLARK.
ii. CARVEL B CLARK, b. Abt. 1904.
3. LOUETTA ADELAIDE 'ETTA'8 CLARK (SAMUEL7, FRANCIS A6, CHARLES SOTHERON5, LEONARD4 CLARKE, FRANKLIN (FRANCIS)3, JOHN2, ROBERT1) was born June 30, 1864 in Granville Co., NC, and died June 06, 1953 in Stem, Granville Co., NC. She married HENRY FLAVIOUS MOORE 1880 in Granville Co., NC, son of HESTER MOORE and ANN WHITFIELD. He was born June 27, 1847 in Granville Co., NC, and died October 24, 1924 in Stem, Granville Co., NC.
Children of LOUETTA CLARK and HENRY MOORE are:
i. OTHO CLARK9 MOORE, b. November 01, 1885, Granville Co., NC; m. SALLIE GILL, December 07, 1916.
ii. MARVIN FLAVIOUS MOORE, b. June 16, 1887, Granville Co., NC; d. 1956, Stem, Granville Co., NC.
iii. MELVIN HENRY MOORE, b. June 16, 1887, Granville Co., NC; d. September 09, 1974, Granville Co., NC; m. LUCILLE PRUITT, June 20, 1916; b. January 19, 1897, Granville Co., NC; d. February 25, 1995, Jacksonville, FL.
iv. ADELAIDE 'ADDIE' HESTER MOORE, b. April 10, 1889, NC; d. October 11, 1947, Durham, Durham Co., NC; m. JAMES JARVIS CARDEN, July 07, 1912; b. May 08, 1887, West Virgina; d. February 19, 1956, Durham, Durham Co., NC.
v. ALVA WARREN MOORE, b. May 09, 1891, Granville Co., NC; d. July 03, 1892, Granville Co., NC.
vi. HALLIE MAY MOORE, b. May 11, 1893, Granville Co., NC; d. October 31, 1960, Washington, DC; m. CHARLES H 'JOE' CULLINAN, November 22, 1927.
vii. IVEY WHITFIELD MOORE, b. June 13, 1895, Granville Co., NC; d. 1960, FL; m. THELMA HUCKABEE, June 24, 1924; b. Abt. 1902.
viii. GEORGE IRBY MOORE, b. March 13, 1898, Granville Co., NC; d. May 11, 1998, Norfolk, VA; m. CARITA WADE, December 31, 1927; b. September 06, 1901, from Morehead City, NC.; d. 1988.
ix. EMMA LOUISE MOORE, b. September 09, 1900, Granville Co., NC; m. GEORGE BOYD SUMMERS, July 19, 1935.
x. MAMIE WARREN MOORE, b. February 14, 1902; m. CHARLES KENNETH SR CUTTS, June 06, 1931.
xi. GRACE LENORA MOORE, b. October 26, 1905, Granville Co., NC; d. May 06, 1989, Granville Co., NC.
4. VELEARA WILKERSON8 CLARK (SAMUEL7, FRANCIS A6, CHARLES SOTHERON5, LEONARD4 CLARKE, FRANKLIN (FRANCIS)3, JOHN2, ROBERT1) was born May 12, 1870 in Granville Co., NC, and died November 1943 in Granville Co., NC. She married WILLIAM H AVERETTE 1891. He was born Abt. 1870, and died 1937.
Children of VELEARA CLARK and WILLIAM AVERETTE are:
i. BERTHA9 AVERETTE, b. October 1892.
ii. LEON R AVERETTE, b. May 1897.
iii. MARY AVERETTE, b. Abt. 1900.
iv. LUCY AVERETTE, b. Abt. 1903.
v. HENRY P AVERETTE, b. Abt. 1905.
vi. WILLIAM H JR AVERETTE, b. Abt. 1907.
vii. ANNA LEWIS AVERETTE, b. Abt. 1911.
viii. SAMUEL H AVERETTE, b. Abt. 1915.
5. ESPA SUIT8 CLARK (SAMUEL7, FRANCIS A6, CHARLES SOTHERON5, LEONARD4 CLARKE, FRANKLIN (FRANCIS)3, JOHN2, ROBERT1) was born August 10, 1872 in Granville Co., NC. She married WILLIAM H DANIEL November 08, 1899 in Granville Co., NC. He was born 1875 in NC.
Children of ESPA CLARK and WILLIAM DANIEL are:
i. RUTH9 DANIEL, b. Abt. 1905.
ii. RALPH DANIEL, b. Abt. 1905.
iii. LOUISA DANIEL, b. Abt. 1910.
iv. AUBREY DANIEL, b. Abt. 1911.
v. WADE DANIEL, b. Abt. 1913.
6. SAMUEL MARCH8 CLARK (SAMUEL7, FRANCIS A6, CHARLES SOTHERON5, LEONARD4 CLARKE, FRANKLIN (FRANCIS)3, JOHN2, ROBERT1) was born March 1874 in Creedmoor, Granville Co., NC, and died 1957. He married BESSIE VIRGINIA MOORE 1905. She was born 1886 in Oxford, Granville Co., NC.
Children of SAMUEL CLARK and BESSIE MOORE are:
i. LOUISE WHEELER9 CLARK, b. Abt. 1906.
ii. KIRBY CONLEY CLARK, b. Abt. 1909.
iii. SAMUEL MYRON CLARK, b. Abt. 1911.
iv. MARTHA CAMERON CLARK, b. Abt. 1916.
v. CLINTON COX CLARK, b. Abt. 1924.
vi. LEATRICE HAY CLARK, b. Abt. 1925.
Richmond, Virginia was flooded with casualties after the first battle of Manassas, quickly overwhelming the existing hospitals. Wounded were treated in any space available - hotels, private homes, even barns. Realizing that a long war and thousands more casualties lay ahead, Southern leaders ordered the construction of five general hospitals in Richmond to treat the military's injured and ill. The National Park Service Visitor Center now stands on the site of the most famous of those institutions -- the "hospital on the hill," Chimborazo.
According to local legend, the name "Chimborazo" comes from a volcano in Ecuador. A Richmonder who had visited South America compared that volcano with this hill, one of the largest in the area, and the name became widely used in the city. Chimborazo hill was an excellent site for a medical facility for several reasons. Its location near the James River was convenient for the transportation of supplies on the Kanawha canal. Fresh water was readily available from natural springs, plus dug wells and steep slopes on three sides of the hill afforded good drainage.
Opened in October of 1861, the hospital covered over forty acres and operated between 75 and 80 wards grouped into five separate divisions Each ward was a hut made of whitewashed pine boards that housed up to forty patients, giving the entire hospital a capacity of over 3,000. Every division had its own laundry, kitchen and bathhouse, and a central bakery and dairy serviced the entire facility, making Chimborazo one of the Confederacy's best-equipped hospitals as well as one of the largest. Directly outside the grounds were the J.D. Goodman brewery and the city's Oakwood Cemetery.
More than 76,000 Confederate sick and wounded were treated here. Chimborazo had a patient mortality rate of 20 percent; dismal by today's standards, but quite good in terms of nineteenth century medicine, before the days of antibiotics, antiseptic surgery and widespread understanding of germ theory. Indeed, it was viewed by Confederate leaders as one of the finest hospitals their new nation possessed.
Chimborazo hospital was innovative, pioneering several new techniques in medicine. Its use of separate wards allowed patients to be grouped together by state - a forerunner of the ward system in modern hospitals.
In 1862, faced with a shortage of hospital staff, the Confederate government authorized the hiring of females as matrons and ward attendants. Phoebe Pember, author of A Southern Woman's Story was one of several women who worked in the wards of Chimborazo. "The service of these ladies," said one surgeon, "added very materially to the comfort of the sick" and marked one of the earliest full-scale entries by women into a profession they soon dominated -- nursing.
Chimborazo's greatest asset was its chief surgeon, Dr James McCaw. A professor at the Medical College of Virginia before the war, McCaw proved to be an exceptional administrator. As with the rest of the South, Chimborazo was continually plagued with supply shortages. The ravages of war on the countryside and the general inefficiency of the Confederate Quartermaster Department combined to prevent the hospital from getting needed supplies. Some wards had to be closed because of a lack of straw used to make mattresses, and the shortages of basic foodstuffs (salt, coffee, meat, flour) forced the hospital bakery to close in the winter of 1864-1865.
Dr. McCaw ably managed his available resources, much to Chimborazo's benefit. He rented land near the hospital to pasture cows and grow a garden, providing his patients with a small but steady stream of fresh vegetables, cheese and milk When soap was scarce, Chimborazo made its own, using grease from the hospital kitchens. McCaw even purchased two canal boats to speed the shipment of foodstuffs from outlying farms. Through his efforts, the "hospital on the hill" was able to fill many of its own needs and continue functioning.
Chimborazo hospital was not a wonderful sight to behold. With insufficient soap or staff for cleaning, the wards were constantly "littered with piles of dirty rags, blood and water." In the summer, the heat made the odor and the flies almost unbearable. Yet, it must be remembered that this hospital faced a monumental task and significant problems with accomplishing that task.
Under the leadership of Dr. McCaw, Chimborazo overcame most of its difficulties and provided the Confederacy with valuable service, an achievement which one author wrote, "may fairly be called one of the most noteworthy achievements in military medicine in American history."
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