Clark, Alex M., fl. 1863 to Sara McMillan

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GLC#
GLC09319
Type
Letters
Date
March 7, 1863
Author/Creator
Clark, Alex M., fl. 1863
Title
to Sara McMillan
Place Written
s.l.
Pagination
4 p. :
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Captain in the 8th Regiment Iowa Infantry, earlier taken prisoner at Shiloh and later paroled: "My vengeful feelings are the hardest to keep down, when thinking of those in the free North, who would prefer giving up to that Tyrant, Jeff. Davis who is trying to establish a government the corner stone of which is oppression....We…are fighting…for the principles that are, or ought to be, dearer than life, Liberty, Freedom from the oppression of the basest of tyrants."

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