Joseph Messer Clough

Joseph Messer Clough (June 15, 1828 – May 7, 1919) was a Union Army lieutenant colonel during the American Civil War, who was appointed and confirmed to the grade of brevet brigadier general of volunteers in 1866.

Biography Clough was born June 15, 1828, in Sunapee, New Hampshire. He attended Norwich University in Vermont for six months. Clough led the City Guard of Manchester, New Hampshire, and was a member of the City Guard at Lowell, Massachusetts. In 1909, Clough was appointed to the rank of major general in the state militia by New Hampshire Governor Henry B. Quinby.

After the Civil War Clough was a farmer and railroad mail agent.

Personal life Clough married Abiah Bucklin on September 7, 1849. She died on December 17, 1873, and he remarried to Cornelia Goss Chase on September 13, 1874.

Joseph Messer Clough died in New London, New Hampshire, on May 7, 1919. He was buried in Montcalm Cemetery, Enfield Center, New Hampshire.