The Chattanooga Daily Rebel. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1862-1864, 1863-01-09
By eRAPE-vIEE AND OTHERWISE.


cHArrASo 1.---. -. wednesday Evening. P. u
The afternoon is tTanscendently lovely.
Abundance of sunshine and erisp-frozeH
earth ovalk apon But won't walk. List
Iessly BIT here at my window the right fcEs-
finger resting up. the Battery. the left ore
finger perpendieularized along the forehead a.
= suppofter-and the Grapevine man looking
out upon the street. think Of what = pretty
girl said TO nc last night : Why donf your
Grapevine speak more Of the ladies :"
The ladies'
Heaven bless tlem,' I would begin-7bnt
have already worn the s1pressionl thrsadbar,.
OF a Cad's lat. best gift to man, The hulnor
is iRrae to say much-4if dared l have re-
ceived a dispatch that they all want to get
married But don't credit it-4no il stance
Of the fact having yet CO me pns' er my personal
observation. The men of the SOsth, l am
satisfied are not the chief actors IN this great
drama or revolution They may be the bone
and .nsw of the var-bnt woman is the soul
Of this struggle for liberty don't mean that
she is the soul cause Of ths var.
What beautiful tribute to woman was that
which appeared in reeent erm5n OF Bishop
Elliott, in Christ Church. Savannah. Said the
Reverend PreIats:
- The attitude Of woman is sublime
Bearing all the sacrifices Of which have lust
spoken. she is moreover called upon 10 suffer
il her affections. to be wounded and snitten
where she feels deepest and most enduringly
Man goes to the battlefield, but woman sends
him there, even though her heartstrihgs
trelablr while she gives tIe farewell kiss and
the farewell blessing Man il supported by
the necessity of movement, By the excitement
of action, by the hope OF honor by the glory
of conquest. Woman remains ht home TO
suffer 10 bear the erusl torture Of suspense
/ to trenble when the battle has been fought
and tlle news OF the slaughter is flashing over
the electric wire to know thak defeat Will
4 cover Her With dishonoE and her little os,es
with ruin. to learn that the husband she doat-
ed upsh, the son whom she cherished in her
BOSOM aud upon whom she nevei let the wind
blow TOO rudely. the fbkother with whom she
sporied through AL her happy days of child
1 hood. the lover 10 whom her early Vow were
lplighted lias died upon soAe distant battle
/ held, and lies there arnahgled corpse unknown
and unrared for. ne er e be seen AZ ain. even
III death Oh Il ose fearful lists Of the
Wounded and the dead How carelessy We
pass thsm over. unless onr own loved ones
happen 10 be linked with them ID military a.
socialism. and yet each name in that roll Of
slaughter carries fatal pang 10 some wpmAn .
But size bears it all and bows snb mssi vsly to
The stoke lie died for the cause He per
ished Tor his country. | would not bavs il
ether wise out / shond like 10 have given the
dying boy my blessing the expiring husband
my last kiss Of affection. the bIeeding loFer
the comfort Of Knowing that kheslsd beside
him.
Is tba, net bs.stifp l, Is ii not the God
b.essca truth
4 hare jpst obtained q special dispatch that
cur boys are encanp ed nlong the Hilli OF
warren Thsss esla night -inds do rob the
tented field" Of nuch Gifts romance Never
ihsIes. the boys are rsn tented, understand
4 On Iii. that Lincoln p.ysr gees out without
being surrounded by az armed guard In
this much he . at Issit an object Of 7eare
at the North. IZ
The last dispatch thar received from the
front. was that our army was retrsatinE enc
way aud RosecrAns the ether The telegram
l received said great fears are entertained
that Rpseeraps will reach Nashville befors ".
reach Chattsnooga-"
By the way. speaking Of the ladies. had
t nearly forge an iEnirabls rstort from on,
of the s,.tlsr sex OF II. i city to the Prussian
Yankee Which. when he was ere
: Thslaiy said. Il an truly surpris ID that SC
: many foreign eIiIss take sides with the cans.
Of tyranny. The flower Of the South hav,
been sacrificed in this. our struggle for libsr
~"
/ madane-ve ge.ps de nOrsr Of de Nor
at home" "
so perceive. . was tn. reply -.if-~s mus
take IS specimens the prisoners that ar.
brensht here
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