Civil War Union Army Officer. Served as a 1st Lieutenant in Company A, 145th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. He was killed at the Battle of Fredericksburg when his regiment, part of Winfield S. Hancock's division, participated in the doomed second assault on the Confederate positions on Marye's Heights and at the stone wall.
His body was never identified on the battlefield, and likely lies today as an "Unknown" in Fredericksburg National Cemetery.
His body was never identified on the battlefield, and likely lies today as an "Unknown" in Fredericksburg National Cemetery.
Civil War Union Army Officer. Served as a 1st Lieutenant in Company A, 145th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. He was killed at the Battle of Fredericksburg when his regiment, part of Winfield S. Hancock's division, participated in the doomed second assault on the Confederate positions on Marye's Heights and at the stone wall.
His body was never identified on the battlefield, and likely lies today as an "Unknown" in Fredericksburg National Cemetery.
His body was never identified on the battlefield, and likely lies today as an "Unknown" in Fredericksburg National Cemetery.
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This stone also commemorates the unknown grave of Lieut. Fletcher Clay, 145th Pennsylvania Volunteers, who fell in the service of his country at Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862 in the 27th year of his age.
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