Clarence Derrick
Class of June 1861.
“4.
Clarence Derrick (born in Washington, D.C., appointed at large) resigned
from the Corps of Engineers to join the Confederacy, where he rose to lieutenant
colonel of the Twenty-third Virginia. He was wounded and captured at Third
Winchester (Opequon) on September 19, 1864. After the war, Derrick was a lawyer,
professor of mathematics, planter, and banker. He died in 1907. [Ralph Kirschner,
The Class of 1861 (1999), p. 162. Pictured on plates between pages 76 and 77.]