Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1863-11-12
What the Women Of the Northwest are Doing
for the Soldiers,

/ Chicago Journal, is writing some very inter-
esting letters from the Army Of the Cumber--
lsnd. Here is an extract respecting the ben
efcial results which are following the
efforts of the Ladies' Aid Societies in reliey-
ing and comforting our sick and wounded:
You hear of the malappropriation of your
gifts, but never fear; one grain may fail but
two will spring up and blossom out into ''for-
get-me-nots." Your work is everywhere. Go
with me 10 that tent standing apart it is the
Dead-house tent. Four bows in their brown
blankets, four white wood cofins, four labels
with four names on four still breasts. Two of
the four garments the sleepers wear are of
linen from your stores, stitched by your fin
gers. Verify, the Ladies' Soldiers Aid Soci-
cites should be named MARY" for are they
not, like her of DID, ''last at the cross and ear
Hest at the grave !'
when can l go home, Doctor" is the
question forever sh ared by the lips and asked
by the eyes, as he goes his daily rounds
There was train of cars at last-box cars
cattle cars, if you like it better-drawn I'D op-
posite the hospital, and l stood there on a
| bright morning at nine o'clock, as the four
hundred poor boys, lame, bandaged, support
ed, carried outright, came over the hill to
take the train. 1t was the W ounded Brigade.
ana three Of every five wore some token of
Woman's remembrance-of your loving kind
ness. 1t was announced to them the night
before that they were to go at five, and there
was no sleep for Joy Some of them had ac-
tually watched the night out, in the open air,
like the Chaldean Shepherds, lest by some
chance the train should 90 away without
them. But they were hopeful and heart
tul, for they would go by-and-by. That
| Wounded Brigade made my eyes dim as it
came 10 "pomp and circumstance" now /;
no martial step, no rustling banners, no
cleaning arms. | should have been less than
human had l not swallowed my heart all day
as thought of that brigade, the grandest
body of men ever saw in my life. Well.
the cars were 75oored with the sick and woun-
ded and we moved slowly away, and | must
tell you that all the way along that weary
ride OF twenty hours to Nashville, it was the
thoughtful gift of woman that kept their
hearts up. Not on the field of Chickamauga,
not in the woods of Alabama, not on the
train IN Tennessee could | get out of sight of
the Aid Society, the Sanitary Commission.
the Florence Nightingales of the Northwest.
l want to described that ride to-day, but can
not; how the boys went as cattle 90 4: how
| they waited hours till Major Generals swift,
commodious car should pass; how they crept
along at the rear of everything alive 1t is
worth chapter and it shall nave it,. And so
my Sisters, have given you a hands breadth
OF the shade which that sunshine of yours has
pierced and glorifed like the coming of morn.
ing. When the scenes amid which we wall and
labor pass into the grand eternity of the his.
torlc page, the heart of the world will warm
to the women of the Northwest; soldierly
daring and womanly deeds will be blended
forever; the kiss of the daughters will not
stain the sword of the sons, the violet, lily and
laurel will bloom immortal together, and the
lost Eden of old will smile once more on the
map of the globe.
The NORTHWESTERN FAIR Wisconsin Do,,a-
fons.--Among the articles donated to the
great Northwestern Fair in Chicago from this
State, we see mention of the following in the
Chicago papers:
Among the trophies presented to this Fair
is an iron band which was by great effort
wrenched from the ankle Of slave who wa;
captured by the Walsin Guards, of the It'll
Wisconsin Infantry, at the battle of Port
Gibson. TIE band is made of bar iron, three
inches wide and half an inch thick, and
weighs three or four pounds. The negro said
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trivial offense. 1t was presented by DR.. Ii.
P, Strong, Of Beloit.
-Four beautiful cages of canary birds, from
| Mesdames A. L. Green, Of Albion, Wis, A.
II. Maxon and A. Fl. Hovey, of Chicago, and
L. Smith, of Winooka, ILL.,, attract the admi.
ration of visitors.
There is also a very exquisite herbareum
of flowers, collected by Edward L. Green, OF
company III, 18th Wisconsin Regiment, while
doing garrison duty at Fort Donelson Tenn.
1t is presented by Mrs. A. NJ. Greene, of Al
bion, Wis. The price marked ON it is s..
We will guarantee that the purchaser will
not sell it for $50. 1t is offered too cheap
A very beautiful collection of lchens,
tastefully arranged, and presented by Mrs. II.
NJ Baird, Of Green Bay, Wis. Mrs. D. G.
Goodale, of Beloit, and Mrs. L. +. Hodges, of
Milwaukee, await purchasers They should
not have long to wait.
A fine picture of Miles Standish, one of
the early Puritans, presented by Mrs. Ann NJ.
Bulls, of Albion, Dane county, Wis, worth
S35. A very striking and attractive portrait.
A box Of fancy articles from the inmates
of the Insane Asylum at Madison, Wis. The
larger portions of these were unique and
beautiful
E. w. Skinner, of Madison, Wis, is the
generous donor of Climax Adjustable Sugar
Mill. 1t is worth $1l0.
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MASON AND THE WEED.-A private letter
from Paris thus refers to the "plantation man
ners' of the distinguished representative of
Virginia gentlemen in France:
"The rebels, Morehead and Mason are
daily to be seen at the new grand hotel. A
few minutes ago l saw the latter there, roll
ing his quid as New England boy chew
gum, and expectorating all aoout him in the
court of the hotel, as well-bred New England
boys would not do"
GB Vanessa, in one of her epistles to Dean
Swift, exclaimed: Lord ! how much we
| differ from the ancients, who used to sacrifice
everything for the good of the commonwealth,
but now our greatest men will at any time
| give up their country out of pique, aud that
| for nothing" This exclamation but very in-
adequately characterizes some of the leaders
of our own people liz the present awful juno
ture. They do not simply "differ from the
the ancents" in this great particular DIFF
ference does not express the idea 'r.. ...'
|
~ good anecdote is told of one of the
! Connecticut boys. While in conversation
with a rebel after the capture of Fort Pulaski,
the latter said: cat least, with all our faults,
we have never made wooden nutmegs." The
| Yankee, very demure looking specimen, in
nocently replied: eve do not make them
of wood any longer" and pointing to one of
the big projectiles lying near, which had
preached the fort, added quietly, "we make
them now of iron!"