[1] In addition, he helped establish the first free public schools in the Southern United States for white and African-American children.

[5] After the Civil War, Fisk was appointed assistant commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau for Kentucky and Tennessee under the command of Oliver Otis Howard.

He made the abandoned barracks in Nashville, Tennessee, available to the American Missionary Association for the creation of the Fisk School, and endowed it with a total of $30,000.

[10] Prohibition Park, a planned community on Staten Island, New York, named one of its major streets Clinton B. Fisk Avenue in his honor.

In 2001 he was the first to be inducted into the new Hillsdale County, Michigan Veterans' Hall of Fame, for his distinguished service in the American Civil War.