Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1861-1862, 1861-10-12
From the Columbian sou'h Caroilniap.
TIE WOMEN OF VIRGINIA.

If there be anything ;rtiGg in orr mt revolt
ton beyond the rmnkibe pressing Of Individual en-
lusasm in the Of the Confederacy Is the noble,
s,Esaci6cing devotion of the women especially Of VIZ
ruia to womans duties in the cause. We undervalue
not our own women, in their praisewortby efforts TO
equip the soldier, apd send him the comforts or necess-
tics Of scEaes the camr but we Eaye the gen.
e. oua attention and earnest socudc OF the somen OF
Virgins from tIe battlefield temporary hospital TO the
more permanent and liyproyided wards OF larger and
more extended halls for relief and canno: avid tribute
tn them We on the battle field, Immediately
af er the conflict houses filed with the wounded
and dying, while we had to step over the dead
TO reach their entrance. We the evidence Of wo.
mans interest In the c. suffering friend and foe,
in many contributions to their comfort Zen. Besure-
gard in bis letter to the sister OF Colonel Cameron
tons that true Virginia idy had laid aside the memory
that he oae TO lay waste her home, and had superin
tended and drtcsed the lu Of his body disgraced
by his wicked invasion.
milk and sweet milk with buckets Of ice cream sent for
the use Of the wounded soldier At the stations by the
way-side on the road from ansssas many we're there
c-owdpg to beg for wounded pen to pc taken to their
houses u small villages, where no hosptas existed,
we know OF dogens taken to be nussd and cared for by
the kndhested women WHO We'd With each other In the
benevolent cIuse.
At Charlottesville, where slim Government preparation
had been made for three hundred, thirteen hundred
wounded and sick precpitated in ore week, on
population Of three thousand and most Of the men eff
in serysc. What would city think Of Il at numbr
thrown upon a5 thus .uddenly: How was it met? Most
nobly ana cheeruliy by the ysnen % that keastful
town. Ev ~ house vas made hospital and every yo-
man became q nurse, n cook, seamsress, to sup
ply every want of the sufferers. Freely were means
poured out and for days aud nights were there watchers
by the e6ucs OF PROSTATE soldiers who had been tight
ing for their defercc.
In the hospital If Fredericksburg where d,see,s fer
a tune made fearful progress We the gentle uhuen-
css Of these angel Of mercy who soothed the sufrer
with their kind et,enoIs gave the sinking the words
Of consolation from the Sacred olune while fsnnirga
little cool air into the expiring lungs, or we;tOs tie
psrched lips Of those naehtibls to the kind act.
Al Stanton yhere no Government hospital had then
be en- established, the wou,s o. that place had three
hundred sick men at one time in their kins case We
ght mention other instances bu. content ourselves
with sn ply stating the fact that it the same case
wherever tho opportunity was pn scnted.
In Richmond, for months sere tbe churches Sleq
With associations for aid and when the battle OF kanss
sas took place. many the private hospitals imEled
stey arranged for the of tie wounded and sick
1t this was no. al-ihe private houses freely Of
ered and we know the fac; from personal experiences
that the citzns sough. with interest to do all in
their power alleviate the sad sueiiigs Of the soldier
Many the t-rs to officers to send their wounded to
their friends to be nused aud at nded and most anxious
was the devoted ineres. Of the kind ard fctionate
nurses who seemed feel that they could not do enough
of the pleasing duty. This concern i'll felt and kept
up add should dnoiher battle occur which iEmmehf
on the Potomac, Richmond will cohtnusto do all that
she has cheeriuy and noby done, and with heartfelt
satisf lci,p.
The opportunities Of war have so far given the women
Of Virginia prominent peson-xe have no doubi the
calls elsewhere in the Corederacy viii be met az noo
when the occasion demands it but pe haye felt duty
say what w have done for them, which 70 do most
gratefully.