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'''Clark Moulton Avery''' (October 3, 1819 – June 18, 1864) was a North Carolinian officer in the Confederate States Army who rose to the rank of colonel and died of wounds received while leading the 33rd North Carolina Infantry Regiment at the Battle of the Wilderness during the American Civil War.

== Early life == Clark Moulton Avery, second child of Isaac Thomas and Harriet Erwin Avery,<ref>Avery 1979, p. 67.</ref> was born on October 3, 1819, at Swan Ponds, North Carolina.<ref name=":0">Avery; Avery 1912, p. 616.</ref> He graduated at the University of North Carolina in 1838.<ref name=":0" />

== Civil War == He was captain of a company in the 1st North Carolina Regiment in the battle at Bethel; lieutenant-colonel of the 33rd North Carolina Regiment; became its colonel early in 1862; was in the battles of Chancellorsville and of Gettysburg; was captured at New Bern by the Federal forces and kept a prisoner on Johnson's Island, Ohio, for several months.<ref name=":0" /> He was wounded at the Battle of the Wilderness and died of his injuries on June 18, 1864.<ref>Avery 1979, p. 68.</ref>

== Personal life == He married, on June 23, 1841, at Morganton, North Carolina, Elizabeth Tilghman Walton, daughter of Thomas and Martha (McEntire) Walton.<ref name=":0" /> She was born on January 3, 1823, at Morganton.<ref name=":0" /> She died on October 25, 1882, near Morganton.<ref name=":0" />

== See also ==

* Isaac E. Avery (brother) * William Waightstill Avery (brother) * Alphonso Calhoun Avery (brother) * Waightstill Avery (grandfather)

== References == {{reflist}}

== Sources ==

* Avery, Isaac Thomas, Jr. (1979). [https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/avery-clark-moulton "Avery, Clark Moulton"]. Powell, William S. (ed.). ''Dictionary of North Carolina Biography''. [https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnort0001unse/page/66/mode/2up?view=theater Vol. 1]. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. pp. 67–68.

'''Attribution:'''

* Avery, Elroy McKendree; Avery (Tilden), Catharine Hitchcock (1912). ''The Groton Avery Clan''. [https://archive.org/details/grotonaveryclan01aver/page/616/mode/2up?view=theater Vol. 1]. Cleveland, OH: [Publisher unknown]. p. 616. {{Source-attribution}}

== Further reading ==

* Avery, A. C. (1908). [https://archive.org/details/biographicalhis06ashegoog/page/n48/mode/2up?view=theater "Clark Moulton Avery"]. Ashe, Samuel A.; Weeks, Stephen B.; Van Noppen, Charles L. (eds.). ''Biographical History of North Carolina''. Vol. 7. Greensboro, NC: Charles L. Van Noppen. pp. 12–13. * Weston, J. A. (1901). [https://archive.org/details/cu31924092908544/page/n625/mode/2up?view=theater "Thirty Third Regiment"]. Clark, Walter (ed.). ''Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina in the Great War 1861–'65''. Vol. 2. Goldsboro, NC: Nash Brothers. p. 543.

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