Hillsborough (NC) Recorder

August 14, 1861

Page 3

TO THE LADIES OF ALABAMA

Executive Department, Montgomery, Ala., July 20

Knowing that the women of Alabama are anxious to do everything in their power for the comfort of the soldiers in the service of the confederacy, I beg leave to suggest that each one of them knit one pair of substantial woolen socks, and deposit the same with the Judge of the Probate Court of the county in which she resides, who will have them forwarded to the Governor of Alabama, at Montgomery—from whence they will be forwarded free of cost to the soldiers before the cold weather commences. The Governor deems nothing more necessary, than this suggestion, to secure from the patriotic ladies of the State a sufficient number of socks to protect the feet of our brave soldiers from the frosts of winter.

Each of the newspapers in the State are respectfully requested to publish this communication free of charge.

A. B. MOORE

MR. HEARTT: Will you publish the above in your paper, and suffer me to call

the attention of the ladies of Orange to the subject. I know at this time our Volunteers need most a supply of substantial stockings. Let every lady in Orange send in a pair to Mr. James Webb, who will see that they are promptly forwarded to volunteers of Captains Jones, Freeland, Ashe, and Webb’s Companies. A pair of socks or stockings will be a little gift, but a most acceptable one. Send them in at once.

ORANGE

[Transcribed by Sharon Strout]