Robert E. Clary

Graduating from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 1828, he served in the quartermaster corps for most of his career.[1] Born March 21, 1805, in Ashfield, Massachusetts, the second son of Electa (Smith) and Ethan Allen Clary was named after the recently executed Irish patriot Robert Emmet.[2] The younger Clarys were raised in a house at Benton Park, at the corner of State and Federal streets in Springfield,[3] where their father clerked a few blocks away at the armory.On March 31, 1829, Clary married his first wife, Esther Philipson, the daughter of a prosperous merchant family; West Point classmate Jefferson Davis served as his best man.In July 1862, he served as chief quartermaster of the short-lived Army of Virginia in the summer of 1862 under the command of Major General John Pope.
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