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Milton C. Clark, 6th Kentucky Cavalry: enrolled as a private in Company F, 4 Sep, 1862, Mackville, Washington Co., Ky., born 6 Mar 1833, Jessamine Co., Ky., 5'8", gray eyes, dark hair, fair complexion.... mustered in as Chaplain 20 Jul 1863. Recommended by Col. Louis D. Watkins "...together with the full conviction on my part that Mr. Milton Clark (a regularly ordained minister of the Baptist denomination) high moral standing and ability to perform the duties of a Chaplain." Received a gunshot wound to the jaw in action near Cooper's Gap, Ga., 21 Sep 1863.... His attending physician in Washington County: "There has some 15 pieces of bone been extracted from his wound, since he has been under my charge. He is badly wounded through the lower jaw, and it badly fractured..... He died at Indianapolis, Indiana, 2 Oct 1921, with burial in Crown Point Cemetery........ Indianapolis News, 3 Oct 1921..."Death Ends 50 Years' Service as Minister.... Rev. Milton Clark, age 89, who was for more than a half a century a Baptist minister, serving in Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky, died Sunday of infirmities due to old age...." Rev. Clark was married eight times.

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