Clark, John B. (fl. 1864) to Sterling Price
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09260 Author/Creator: Clark, John B. (fl. 1864) Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 7 October 1864 Pagination: 4 p. Order a Copy
Former Confederate congressman and brigadier general in the Missouri State Guard writes to Major Gen. Sterling Price, giving Northern Press reports of Price's Missouri Expedition: "it appears that you have penetrated within twenty miles of St. Louis with your forces, and that you are taking one place after another in rapid succession, filling our enemies with consternation & alarm.... I pray you may have complete success and that our people may raise and shake off the shackles that have so long bound them; may the Almighty preserve you and your noble army, and give you that success our cause so well deserves.... around Richmond, the two armies have been in severe battle all day - up to this time we have the advantage, and hold our ground, with considerable loss in officers and men. But we have killed large numbers of the enemy and taken more than a thousand persons, and a quantity of artillery & small arms but we are still fighting not more than five or six miles from the city; the battle is also ... around Petersburg with what success I am not informed."
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