Clowes attended the College of William and Mary in his hometown of Williamsburg, VA after leaving R-MC and is listed as a master mechanic in Williamsburg in the 1860 census. In the early years of the war, he served as lieutenant and commanding office of the 68th Virginia Militia. On February 16, 1863, he was mustered into Co. C of the 32nd VA Infantry as a "recruit from depot (conscript)," where he served as a private until the end of the war. He was hospitalized a number of times in 1864 and 1865, including a stay due to neuralgia in February 1865, returning to his unit on March 21, 1865. He received a slight head wound at Dinwiddie Court House, VA ten days later on March 31, 1865 and was hospitalized at the Fair Grounds Hospital in Petersburg, VA, where he was taken POW on April 3, 1865. He was transferred to Newport News, VA on April 23, 1865 and finally took the oath of allegiance there on June 15, 1865. He was then transferred to the Steuart Post Hospital in Richmond on June 20 and to the Alms House Hospital on June 29, 1865.
Clowes died in Williamsburg, VA on November 2, 1866 and is buried there in Cedar Grove Cemetery.
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