The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-08-27
AREBEL.a RECOLLECTTONs.
Southern Women During the NE.
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The Atlantic for August has Georg,
Cary Eggleston's paper on "a Rebel
Recollections," which is devoted to tn.
conduct of Southern women during anc
after the war. He strengthens the gen
eral testimony as to the passionate and
unyielding devotion of the women tC
| ''the cause" and the heroism with which
/ they have borne poverty and deprivation
/ since it became S'Iost." A few incidents
illustrate the temper of the daughters Of
the South
AN OLD FEMALE REBEL.
remember a conversation between
two of them-one a young wife whose
husband was in the army, and the other
an elderly lady with no husband nor son,
but with many friends and near relatives
in marching regiments. The young lady
remarked:
''Pm sure / do not hate our enemies
| earnestly hope their souls may go to
heaven, but would like to blow all their
mortal bodies away as fast as they could
come upon our soil. :"
"Why, you shock me, my DEAR" re-
piled the other; 81 don't see why you
want the Yankees to go to heaven
hope to get there myself, some day, and
I'm sure | shouldn't want to go if l
thought I should find any of them
there"
The old lady was convinced from the
first that the South would fail, and she
based this belief upon the fact that we
had permitted the Yankees to build rail-
roads through the Southern States" 81
will tell you," she would say, ''that's
what they built the roads for. They
knew the war was coming, and they got
ready for it. The railroads will whip us
you may depend. What else were they
out them, and we oughn't to let anybody
build them" And no amount of reas-
oning would serve to shake her convic-
ton that the people of the North had
built all our railroads with treacher-
Gus intent, though the stock of the
only road she had ever seen was held
very largely by people along its line,
many of whom were her own friends.
A YOUNG REBEL IN PETTICoATs.
A young girl, ordinarily of very gen.
tie disposition, astonished a Federal Col
which served at least to show the earnest
ness OF her purpose to uphold her side of
the argument. She lived in part of the
then for the first time held by the
Federal army, and a Colonel, with some
members of his staff, made her family the
recipients of call one morn
ing. Seeing the piano open the Colonel
asked the young lady to play, but she
declined. He then went to the instru-
ment himself, but he had hardly begun
to play when the damsel, raising the piano
top, severed nearly all of the strings with
a Ratchet, saying TO the astonished peri
ormer as she did so:
CHATS my piano, and it shall not
give you minutes pleasure. The Col
onel bowed, apologized and replied
eff all your people are as ready as you
to make costly sacrifices, we might as well |
90 home.
And most Of them were ready and will
ing to make similar sacrifices. Our lady
If my acquaintance knocked in the heads |
If dozen casks of choice wine, rather |
han allow some Federal officers to sip as
many glasses Of it. Another DESTROYED |
her own library, which was very precious
TO her, when that seemed the only way IN !
which she could prevent the staff of a |
general officer, campcd near, from en-
oying few hours reading in her parlor
every morning. There is
STORY OF GENERAL FORREST
which will serve to show his opinion of
the pluck and devotion of the Southern
women. He was drawing his men up in
line Of battle one day, and it was evident
that sharp encounter was about to take
place. Some ladies ran from a house
which happened to stand just in front of
MS line, and asked him anxiously:
"What shall we do General, what shall |
we do?"
Strong in his faith that they only
wished to help in some way, he replied
81 really don't see that you can do
much, except to stand on stumps,
wave your bonnets, and shout "Hurrah
ooys!"