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Clinton Bowen Fisk (St. Louis, Missouri, Brevet Major General (U.S.A.))

b. 1828-12-08 d. 1890-07-09

St. Louis, Missouri, brevet major general (U.S.A.). Clapp's Corner, New York, native. Son of Benjamin Fisk and Lydia Fisk. Married to Jenette C. Fisk. Father of Charles A. Fisk and May C. Fisk. Served in the 33rd Missouri Volunteer Regiment (U.S.A.) as colonel from September 5, 1862 to August 8, 1862. Commissioned brigadier general on August 8, 1862. Appointed to serve in the Missouri Militia as major general on February 27, 1865. Served in the United States Volunteers as brevet major-general from May 13, 1865, to May 18, 1865. Assistant commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (Freedmen’s Bureau) from May 1865 to June 1866.

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White

Bibliography

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Missouri, St. Louis, St. Louis, p. 337.

Find A Grave, "Clinton B. Fisk (December 8, 1828-July 9, 1890)," Memorial #5892361, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5892361 (accessed January 29, 2020).

Ezra J.Warner, Generals in Blue: Lives of Union Commanders (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1964), 154-155.

"Records of the Field Offices for the State of Kentucky, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872," The National Museum of African American History & Culture, https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/sova nmaahc.fb.m1904 (accessed March 24, 2020).

"Clinton Bowen Fisk," _Tennessee Encyclopedia, https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/clinton-bowen-fisk/ (accessed March 25, 2020).

Alphonso A. Hopkins, The Life of Clinton Bowen Fisk (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1888), p. 93.

Citation

Fisk, Clinton Bowen. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32205794 (November 12, 2026).

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