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.]

 

Derrick “had been dismissed on July 16, 1861, for tendering his resignation in the face of the enemy.” [Ralph Kirschner, The Class of 1861 (1999), p. 78-79.]