<p style="text-align:center"><strong>CLARENCE DERRICK</strong></p><p style="text-align:center"><strong>No. 1936 · Class of 1861</strong></p><p style="text-align:center"><strong>Died December 9, 1907, at Greensboro, Alabama, aged 70 years.</strong></p><p>Clarence Derrick was born in Washington City, September 7, 1837; was appointed cadet-at-large, September 1857; was graduated fourth in class of June 1861, and was appointed to the Engineers. He resigned from the U.S. Army in July 1861, and, offering his services to the Confederate States, was appointed to the Artillery and assigned as A. A. G. on the staff of General John B. Floyd, and served with him at Clarksville, Fort Donelson and Nashville. After the retirement of General Floyd he organized a battalion of Infantry in Southwest Virginia (the Twenty-third Virginia), of which he was given the command and assigned to Echols' brigade, Wharton's Division, Breckenridge's Corps, and was engaged at Princeton, Va.; Charleston, W. Va, and Dry Creek or White Sulphur Springs, August 27, 1863; at New Market, against Sigel, May 15, 1864; and coming down from the valley with Stonewall Jackson's army, he participated in all the battles from Hanover Junction to Cold Harbor, June 1 to 8, 1864. He was then suddenly ordered to Lynchburg with Breckenridge's Corps, to oppose Hunter; was engaged at Kernstown in August 1864, Charleston and Harper's Ferry, Frederick or Monocacy, against Lew. Wallace, demonstration at Washington City, June 11, 1864, under Early, Snicker's Gap, Va., in June 1864, and Opequan, Sept. 19, 1864, where his military career was cut short by his being wounded, captured and confined in Fort Delaware until some months after the collapse of the Confederacy. When captured he had been recommended for promotion to Brigadier General.</p><p>After his release from Fort Delaware he studied law and practiced in Marion, Va., from 1867 to 1873; was Professor of Mathematics and Sciences at Marion, Alabama, and Charlot-</p><p style="text-align:center"><a href="https://usmalibrary.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/aogreunion/id/8924">Annual Report, June 12, 1908, pp. 148�152 · U.S. Military Academy Library</a></p>