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communication 2010). On June 6th, 1861, the Cayuga Volunteers left for Washington
and the Union Army. In July, while outside Martinsburg, West Virginia, dissension in
the ranks prompted complaint to Commanding General Patterson, who relieved Clark
of his command and recommended court martial. Nothing came of the charges (no
court martial occurred), and Col. Clark became Aide-de-Camp to General Nathaniel
Banks. As A.D.C., Clark's main task was as military topographer. Clark served on
General Banks' staff for the remainder of the War, at the end of which he, like many
other colonels with excellent war records, was brevetted to Brigadier General, a title
he kept for the rest of his life even though he never actually served in the war as a
General (Ellis, personal communication 2010).
When Clark returned to civilian life, he became the City Engineer of Auburn,
New York. However he also allowed his interests in history and archaeological
topography to flourish, and as such was in communication with many of the eminent
nineteenth-century archeologists and historians of the Northeastern United States.
Clark devoted a considerable amount of time trying to locate formerly occupied native
villages in upstate New York. He collaborated with Rev. James Hawley in the study of
the Jesuit Relations, and later the Moravian journals, in order to try to locate the
mission sites referenced therein (Ellis, personal communication 2010). In 1885 he co-
operated with the Catholic historian John Gilmary Shea and Rev. C. A. Walworth to
specify the location of the site where Isaac Jogues and other Jesuits were tortured and
killed by the Mohawks, and also attempted to identify the location of the village where
Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha was born and lived. The information Clark provided
proved essential to the founding of the Shrine of the North American Martyrs in
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