McCauley, Clay

A Pennsylvanian, McCauley left Dickinson to complete his studies at Princeton in 1862. He was soon a Union Army officer and a prisoner of war in Libby Prison in Richmond, having been captured at Chancellorsville. After the war, he completed theological studies and spent the remainder of his life as a Presbyterian pastor, much of it as an influential missionary and educator in Japan.
Life Span
Dickinson Connection
Class of 1862
    Full name
    Clay McCauley
    Place of Birth
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    North
    Origins
    Free State
    No. of Spouses
    1
    Family
    Isaac McCauley (father), Anna Cleveland (wife)
    Education
    Dickinson (Carlisle College)
    Princeton (College of New Jersey)
    Other
    Other Education
    Heidelberg University (Germany)
    Occupation
    Clergy
    Writer or Artist
    Relation to Slavery
    White non-slaveholder
    Military
    Union Army
    How to Cite This Page: "McCauley, Clay," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/6199.