Above a Common Soldier: Frank and Mary Clarke in the American West and the Civil War

TitleAbove a Common Soldier: Frank and Mary Clarke in the American West and the Civil War
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication1997
AuthorsClarke, Charles Francis, Mary Clarke, and Darlis A. Miller
Number of Pages220
PublisherUniversity of New Mexico Press
CityAlbuquerque, NM
Abstract

First published as To Form a More Perfect Union in 1941, this rare volume of Civil War-era letters relates the poignant experiences of an English immigrant in the service of the United States Army as a noncommissioned officer, civilian employee, and Union volunteer. Frank Clarke served in Mexico, Missouri, New Mexico, and Bleeding Kansas, on the Sioux, Solomon River, and Utah Expeditions, and in war-torn Tennessee and Mississippi. After Frank's tragic death in 1862, his wife Mary corresponded with his English mother, detailing the daily struggles of a military widow and her five sons in frontier Kansas.

Original PublicationTo Form a More Perfect Union. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1941.
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