Mobile Register

July 9, 1861

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THE VIRGINIA LADIES—A South Carolina soldier in Virginia says:

I have seen ladies and children manifest the most surprising anxiety to have pieces of our cherished emblem.  Ladies often engage in conversation with the humblest of our soldiers, and gladly receive from them pieces of palmetto as tokens of soldierly esteem.

A Mississippian at Richmond writes:

The ladies are very kind and liberal, and treat us as kindly as we could wish.  The camp is full of them every evening hunting up sick, and a rat might as well try to escape a terrier as for a sick man to escape the ladies, and when they find him he is either carried to a private house or else overcrowded with nice “nick nacks” to eat.

 

[Transcribed by Sharon Strout]