ebooks Josefo: los escritos esenciales (Spanish Edition) by Paul L. Maier in History

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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. Darlis Miller has kept George Hammond's original annotations and added a few new ones. Her introductions to the book and individual chapters provide biographical details to Frank's and Mary's lives and place their letters in historical context.