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Identifier

clark_b1f21

Recipient

Margery B. Rogers Clark

Publication Date

1-27-1863

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Jonathan discussing his health and that of the company; conditions at camp, including easy access to food and water; rumor of a possible furlough for 1 of 20 men; prices of food supplies; rumors of home events and laments not hearing from the women at home.

Subject Headings (Library of Congress)

Confederate States of America. Army -- Social conditions; Confederate States of America. Army -- Equipment; Confederate States of America. Army -- Leaves and furloughs; Health; Smallpox; Rumor -- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865;; 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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Also included in the Civil War in the American South collection.

Jonathan Clark to Margery Clark (27 January 1863)

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