Brattleboro V.A. June 27th 1864 Dear Marys. I told you I would not write and I dont intend to. Asman is gaining again and the Surgeon tells me he can go home with me if I will wait a day or two. he expects an order to transfer him to Montpelier and he will be furloughed from there.
Clark, Gardner B. – May 23, 1864
Hudson May 23d 1864 Capt Clark I was verry much pleased in receiving your letter a few days since written after you was wounded. It was somewhat of a surprise as I had given up ever hearing from you again personaly for it had some little time since I had written to you But it gave me the more pleasure for not expecting it
Blakeslee, Eliakim R. – April 25, 1864
Camp 1st U.S. SharpShooters April 25th 1864 To Mr. Sheldon Sir Your communication opf the 12th just were received soma days since and after much inquiries Iam unable to find any of the articles mentioned. The commission was in the possession of Col. Berdan for some time, but as Col. B. has now been discharged, Iam unable to learn definitely what has become of the commission, but am informed by pretty good authority that it has been sent to Governor Blair of Mich.
Clark, Gardner B. – April 24, 1864
Roxberry Vermont. April 24th 1864. My Loved Husband. Darling Boy. I dont know as it will do any good for me to write to you as it is after the 20th but I cannot help it. I must write to you and perhaps you will get it sometime. I do not know what I shall do if I cannot write to you and hear from you the next four months would seem longer than ever. Wont you be glad when it is gone. I guess I shall we will be so happy. I shall love you so much that I know I shall plague you more than I did when I was down there. I wonder what you are doing today. alone in our house I presume thinking of your little wife.
Clark, Gardner B. – April 24, 1864
Camp of the 1st U.S.S.S. April 24th 1864 My Mary My Darling little Wife. I dream of you by night and your image is ever present in my waking hours. And I often wonder if our happiness of those two month we were together is not too a dream of yesternight. Should that restless spirit which has been my constant companion since earliest boy hood, now be content to leave me.
Clark, Gardner B. – April 22, 1864
Roxberry Vermont April 22d 1864 Dear Gardner My Own Darling Husband, I received two letters from you to day written the day I came away and the 17th you do not know how glad I was to get them. I feel so much better to hear from you to have a cheering word from the loved one. O I do hope we will not be deprived of the privilage of recieving and sending letters to and from loved ones for what could I do without hearing from my Darling Boy.
Clark, Gardner B. – February 24, 1864
Moretown Feb 24th 64 Dear Gardner and Mary I have waited a long time to hear from you but bigin to think you have forgotten us or do not care to hear from us as we have not heard from you since last December. I think two months a long time not to hear from you but if you dont want to hear from us just say so and I wont write but want you to write any way we are all well as usual school finished yesterday
Clark, Gardner B. – January 16, 1864
Camp of the 1st US.SS. January 16th 1864 My Dear Wife My Mary I have been very busy since my last was written. building a new. Yesterday Captain Garrison and myself started from camp for the purpose of finding a place to Keep “Our Wives” provided they would [ ? ] to pay us a visit. After meeting a dozen refusals. this morning we found what we sought.
Clark, Gardner B. – January 12, 1864
Moretown Vermont. January 12th 1864. Loved Husband Dear Gardner, Yours of January 5th Leonard brought me this morning. I was in hopes to hear that you had recieved that box. Father heard at Middlesex yesterday that the Army of the Potomac were about to move. That they were going to Harpers Ferry. We also hear that there is a call for one million men for sixty days and it is thought here that if they can be raised that the war will soon close.
Clark, Gardner B. – January 9, 1864
A Kiss Camp of the 1st US.SS. January 9th 1864 My Mary My Own Darling Wife, Saturday eve once more, and it being after “Taps” I know of nothing better for me than writing to my little girl.
Clark, Gardner B. – December 25, 1863
Moretown Vermont. December 25th 1863 Dear Gardner My Own Darling Husband. Christmas has come again and with silent language of the pen is the only way I greet the loved one, May another Christmas find us together once more never again to be parted in life.
Clark, Gardner B. – December 17, 1863
Army of the Potomac Near Brandy Station V.a. December 17th 1863 My Mary. My Own Darling Wife. Although I have received no letter since writing you Sunday. I expect one to night. To-day has been a well disagreeable time. But let it storm. it relieves nearly all the ordinary duties of a soldier he can sit by his blazing hearth telling yarns or reading them as he chooses.
Clark, Gardner B. – December 13, 1863
Army of the Potomac Near Brandy Station V.a. December 13th 1863 My Own Darling Wife. Last eve I received yours of the 9th many thanks and a kiss for writing me so often. Osman was over to see me to-day he said he was going to have some things from home I wish you would get of my folks twenty five or thirty pounds of butter paying them the highest market price and send me.
Clark, Gardner B. – December 12, 1863
Berlin Vermont. December 12th 1863. Dear Gardner. My Darling Husband. I have heard nothing from you since the last battle but thing there must be letters for me at Moretown before now. I am going out there in a few days and Mother and Celia are going back to Roxbury.
Clark, Gardner B. – December 6, 1863
Army of the Potomac Near Brandy Station V.a Dec. 6th 1863 My Own Darling Wife. Sabbath eve. and around me throng thoughts of the past and its loved ones and visions of the future. where, away from the din and turmoil of war. I may enjoy the society of those who alone make life valuable.
Clark, Gardner B. – December 4, 1863
Army of the Potomac Near Brandy Station Va Dec. 4th 1863 My Mary. My Own Loved Wife. This is the first opportunity I have had in ten days to put my pen on paper we pushed up the 24th ult. but did not march until Thursday the 26th making our way to the Rapidan which we crossed that night
Clark, Gardner B. – November 23, 1863
Army of the Potomac Near Brandy Station V.A. Nov. 23d 1863 My Mary. My Own Darling Wife. As I sit alone in my “Palace” to night looking at a familiar handwriting and looking back to the pleasant past and forward to the dim and shadowy future
Clark, Gardner B. – November 19, 1863
November 19th 1863 My Mary. My Own Darling The Army of the Potomac is yet “In Status quo,” Trains run regular to Brandy Station from Washington. therefore look now for a forward movement if it is to take place this Autumn
Clark, Gardner B. – November 15, 1863
Army of the Potomac Near Brandy Station V.a. Nov. 15th 1863 My Mary. Sunday again. and an unusually quiet one for those who follow the Grand Army of the Potomac. My “Palace” I finished yesterday ready to live in six months if necessary. Our Corps Commander found it out and this morning before I was up, sent around a circular stating that we would hold ourselves in readiness
Clark, Gardner B. – November 12, 1863
Army of the Potomac Near Brandy Station V.a. Nov. 12th 1863 My Mary. My Own Darling Wife. It is nearly a week since I have had time to converse with you. Before day break of the 7th we broke camp and moved to Kelleys Ford on the Rappahannock a distance of some ten or twelve miles. which place we reached about noon. Our Regt. was immediately deployed as skirmishers
Clark, Gardner B. – November 5, 1863
Army of the Potomac Nov. 5th 1863 My Mary. My Own Dear Wife. We are still inactive though reports thick and fast have been our guests since my last to you. Time flies so swiftly I hardly know when my last to you was written. of one thing I am certain no word from you has reached me since.
Clark, Gardner B. – November 3, 1863
Berlin Vermont November 3d 1863. My Darling Husband, I have received eight letters since writing you last Saturday. three from you two from mother, one from Celia, one from Father, and one from Annie. I went to Moretown with John and Ellen Sunday and we had started to go back and got nearly to the foot of the mountain when Aunt Sophia over took us, she had been to Mothers after me, and I come back with her.
Clark, Gardner B. – November 1, 1863
Camp near Bealton Station November 1st 1863 My Mary. My Own Loved Wife. Yours of Oct. 24th I received some days since. Where we were has slipped my memory. I dont pretend to know in the morning when I get up. Where I am. One day last week the ground was staked off and winter quarters ordered to be built. before daylight the next morning we were packed up and ready to march
Clark, Gardner B. – October 8, 1863
Berlin Vermont Oct 8th 1863. Dear Gardner. My Own Darling Husband. Aunt Mary came down here last Tuesday to see me. and so Roxana and I went to the village with her this morning. we did not any of us know we were going until a few moments before we started so that I had not time to write a letter, so I wrote those few lines at the post office after I received yours.