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Identifier

clark_b1f19

Recipient

Margery B. Rogers Clark

Publication Date

1-18-1863

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Albert Henry discussing the high rate of injury and death, the difficulties of being on the front and his fear of Isaac joining the war; says that there is "no honor attached to them that die in the army they are forgotten forever among those that were well" and hopes to be able to return. Also mentions rumors of harsh treatment of civilians by Union troops in Mississippi

Subject Headings (Library of Congress)

Troop movements; Confederate States of America. Army -- Leaves and furloughs; Soldiers -- Wounds and injuries; Confederate States of America. Army -- Social conditions; Confederate States of America. Army -- Recruiting and enlistment;; Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 42nd. Company F; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865

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correspondence

City

Goldsboro (N.C.)

Original Collection

Clark Family Letters, Archives and Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries

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Additional files attached: transcript

Also included in the Civil War in the American South collection.

Albert H. Clark to Margery Clark (18 January 1863)

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