Record of military service from August 1st, 1861 to Oct. 4th, 1865 of Augustus P. Clarke ....
Published: 1861
Language: eng
Subjects: Alumni and alumnae; Biography; History; Physicians; Personal narratives; Harvard University; Harvard Medical School
Other titles: Miscellaneous biographical notes used by F. H. Brown in compiling Harvard University in the War.
Description: Handwritten transcript of Peck's diary detailing service in Civil War. Manuscript.
Notes: Title from cover.

Original in Harvard Medical School Library.

Augustus Peck Clarke was born in September 1833 in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. He received his A. B. from Brown University in 1861, and his M. D. from Harvard Medical School in 1862. He also received an A. M. in 1887 from Brown. Clarke served in the Civil War as a surgeon for the Sixth New York Cavalry and rose to the rank of surgeon-in-chief and brevetted lieutenant colonel in the cavalry of the Army of the Potomac, under General Philip H. Sheridan. He married Mary Hannah Gray in 1861, and his two daughters are alumnae of Radcliffe College. Clarke was a member of a number of medical associations, including the Massachusetts Medical Society, the American Academy of Medicine and the American Medical Association. He was also a member of many local associations, including the Cambridge Society for Medical Improvement. He died at the age of seventy-eight at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts in April 1912.