Henry Clark Corbin volunteered as a second lieutenant in the 83rd Ohio Infantry in 1862 before being commissioned major in the 14th United States Colored Infantry, rising to lieutenant colonel and colonel and fighting at the Battle of Decatur and Battle of Nashville. He remained in the Regular Army after the war, eventually serving as Adjutant General of the United States Army from 1898 to 1904. Born in Ohio in 1842, he died in 1909.