Excerpt from the December 30th, 1862, edition of the Jacksonian Mississippian:
"Among the strange, heroic, and self-sacrificing acts of woman in this struggle for our independence, we have heard of none which exceeds the bravery displayed and hardships endured by the subject of this notice, Mrs. Anne Clark. Mrs. Clark volunteered with her husband as a private, fought through the battle of Shiloh, where Mr. Clark was killed - she performing the rights of burial with her own hands. She then continued with Bragg's army in Kentucky, fighting in the ranks as a common soldier, until she was twice wounded - once in the ankle and then in the breast, when she fell into the hands of the Yankees. Her sex was discovered by the Federals, and she was regularly paroled as a prisoner of war, but they did not permit her to return until she had donned female apparel. Mrs. Clark was in our city on Sunday last, en route for Bragg's command."
In August of 1863, she (Anne Clark) was seen wearing lieutenant's bars at Turner's Station, Tennessee, and was recognized as the heroic Anne Clark, causing a bit of sensation among the soldiers. A Texas cavalry soldier, among those who saw her, wrote a letter home to his father saying that he had heard of her brave deeds. The letter repeated the story of Clark's husband being killed at Shiloh and she later being wounded and released by the Yankees while required to wear a dress.
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