CLARENCE GLINDON EMERSON – 16th ARTILLERY1LESS THAN A YEAR WITH THE 6th ARTILLERY - Clarence Glindon Emerson was born in Hammond in St. Lawrence County to Norman Emerson and Susan Soper. In March 1864, he got a $300 town bounty for enlisting in Company H of the 16th Artillery when he was 21 years old.Company H led by Captain Henry Thompson went straight to Fortress Monroe at the southern tip of the Virginia Peninsula and had their first engagement at West Point, VA, at the mouth of the York River about 20 miles east of Richmond. They fought along the James River between Petersburg and Richmond until the end of October, before they were ordered to North Carolina.Clarence was discharged on an individual muster-out roll at Fortress Monroe on May 26, 1865, and went home to St. Lawrence County. By 1870, he was in Champlain working as a farm hand.He later married Nettie Starks, and they raised their family on a farm in Mooers. On July 20, 1925, the Plattsburgh Sentinel noted, “Clarence Emerson, an old soldier of the Civil War, is very ill at this writing,” in the Mooers news section. He died on July 29th, aged 82, and was buried in the New Mooers Cemetery. His wife received her Widows Pension until she died in 1945 and was buried in the Mooers Riverside Cemetery.
