A . Judson Clark Adoniram Judson Clark commanded a New Jersey battery in the American Civil War . Civil War . Clark enlisted in the 1st New Jersey Volunteer Infantry in April 1861 , and became a sergeant in Company F . When the regiment ’ s three month enlistment ended , Clark was involved in raising 2nd Battery " B " New Jersey Volunteer Light Artillery . It was mustered into service on September 3 , 1861 , Camp Olden in Trenton , New Jersey . The battery was assigned to the First New Jersey Brigade under the command of Brigadier General Philip Kearny . Clark became first lieutenant under Capt John E . Beam . The battery served in the Peninsula Campaign , assigned to III Corps . Beam was killed in the Battle of Malvern Hill on July 1 , 1862 . Upon the death of Beam , Clark was promoted to the rank of captain . He commanded the battery to the end of the war . The battery was not engaged again until the Battle of Fredericksburg , in which it was assigned to second division III Corps under Brigadier General Daniel Sickles . Clark commanded the artillery attached to first division III Corps at the Battle of Chancellorsville under Brigadier General David B . Birney . In the artillery brigade of the III Corps , Clark and his battery served at the Battle of Gettysburg . His guns were deployed in an exposed position near the Peach Orchard on July 2 , 1863 but then were moved to safer ground . The battery fired on the Confederate troops advancing from Warfield Ridge before being forced to withdrawn . Clark reported that he pulled out when support disappeared on either flank . When Captain George E . Randolph , the brigade ’ s commander , was wounded , Clark became acting commander . He retained brigade command in the Bristoe Campaign . Randolph returned in time for the Battle of Mine Run , and Clark resumed battery command . When III Corps was abolished , Clark ’ s battery was transferred to the Reserve Artillery in the brigade of Major John A . Tompkins . In that formation , Clark ’ s battery served in the early battles of the Overland Campaign . By the time of the Battle of Cold Harbor , Clark ’ s battery had been transferred to the artillery brigade of II Corps under Colonel John C . Tidball . In the Siege of Petersburg , Clark ’ s battery remained in II Corp under Tidball and then under Colonel John G . Hazard . Clark was slightly wounded at the Second Battle of Ream ' s Station in 1864 . Later he escorted the troops in his battery whose enlistments had expired back to Trenton , New Jersey before returning to the Petersburg front . Back at Petersburg , Clark was in charge of the artillery on the front lines of II Corps in December 1864 . At the beginning of the Appomattox Campaign , Clark ’ s battery provided support to II Corps troops engaged at the Battle of Sutherland ' s Station . Following the Confederate surrender , Clark and his command were mustered out on June 16 , 1865 . Judson Clark was recommended for promotion more than once , but the most he received was a brevet rank of major , conferred on April 2 , 1865 for his service at Petersburg . Post war . After the war , Major Clark served as police chief in Newark . An active Republican , he next was secretary of the Board of Assessment and Revision of Taxes and Receiver of Taxes ( ca . 1888 ) . Capt Clark was named to the Board of Assessment and Taxes in 1900 . He also was an officer in the New Jersey National Guard . A . Judson Clark died on July 24 , 1913 . He was buried in Evergreen Cemetery , Hillside , New Jersey .