[Letter], 1863, Mar. 6, Rockland, R.I., Harrison Clarke [to] Alan Cameron

Abstract

A personal correspondence from Harrison Clarke of Rockland, Rhode Island. Comments about the war\u27s relation to the textile industry. Refers to output of Ponaganset Mill in the village of Rockland, Rhode Island. Allen Cameron had worked with Clarke and as Weave Room supervisor (in Rockland and perhaps at Ponaganset Mill?) before the war. One entry: dated March 6, 1863 Handwritten; 1 folded sheet (4 p.); 20 x 26 cm. folded to 20 x 13 cm. This letter was reproduced in whole in Silber, Nina and Mary Beth Sievens, eds. \u27Yankee Correspondence: Civil War Letters Between New England Soldiers and the Home Front\u27 Charlottesville, University press of Virginia, 1996. p.142-143