Evening journal., 1894-05-15
SOUTHERN GIRLS GALL
Her Letter During the Fierc-
est of the Fighting.
EXPRESSED DISGUST AT AYANKEB


It-why General Butler Had TO Resort
60 Summary Methods I'm New Orleans.
No one who did not live through the
recent unpleasantness" can have an
adequate idea Of the intensity Of feeling
which prevailed in both the North and
South. It was not confined to men.
Women and their children were as bitter
In both sections as the men were
In looking over her papers the other
day. the wife of a Wilmington lawyer
found the following letter, which had
come iuto her possession through her
grandfather The writer OF the letter is
unknown, although she may vet be alive
and residing IN the sunny South She
evinoes the same spirit which General
Butler found In New Orleans and for the
suppression of which he adopted such
summary methods
ALEXANDRIA, @. S. A.. MAY 81. 1862.
MY Dearest Darling Willie:-You eau
not imagine with what pleasure / re.
ceived your secesh letter. Never fear,
my dearest sister. that | am not true
Southerner. Gladly would / see every
Yankee swept from the face of the earth !;
and, OH II | were only man, how /
would help our dear soldiers to do it In
my chamber l have hanging three dear
faces-our gallant and brave generals,
Beauregard and Lee. and our own darling.
President Davis God bless them all.
and may He protect them from the hands
Of the vilest of the vile wretches-the
invaders Of our sacred soil.
What do you think2 Why. who
should occupy Mr.. Wright's house but
Dornnany u 81 tho
teers Please come up to help me 20
scald or poison them, the hateful Yankee
dogs The ladies' of Norfolk do not
behave any worse than we do Why. we
never pass them without saying some.
thing about the vileness of the North.
or pulling up our dresses aud turning mp
our noses, or something of that sort,
and they get so angry.
Alice andJennie Mayberry, SallylSmith
and myself have been going together a
| great deal this spring How | want our
darling Willie up to go with us. We
have way, If we pass by any of the
Yankees and happen to touch them, we
shake our clothes as If our lives depended
on IL. One day Alice and | we're together
and she happened to touch one of them She
shook her cloak, and one happened to see
her, and said TO her: Shake it, sis. which
Alice did, with vengeance.
I'VE do have lots of iun-no more
afraid of them than as if they we're lot
OF rails that old Abe had split up, and
we put them on the same footing with
the darkeys who consider their equals.
[ am constantly singing The Southern
Wagon, and all sorts of sscesh songs
that can be imagined. There is new
one come out, called Maryland, my
Maryland, composed by a Marylander in
New Orleans He thinks Maryland will
come with the South, which, OF course.
she will. She is only kept down by the
point Of the bay yonet or she would have
seeded long ago
How l wish l could see our darling
soldiers come MAJ ching into this poor,
down trodden city of alexandria. Poor
little city lt smells so badly hardly
know sometimes what TO do, since there
have been so many Yankees here.
"Oh | wish l could see those French
men and Englishmen-but / cannot
Give my love to them and tell them
they must recognize the Southern Con
federacy-for Cotton is King-or will
stir them up with q hot poker. Please
let me have your cousin, Mr.. Carr. Oh.
please do. know you will, though
that is good little sister (nonsense)
please don't look at one OF General
Wool's tfliceis, for if ytu do you will get
so ugly will not know YOU. You may
spit at them as much as you please. but
save all your good looks and sweet
smiles for our own gallant and brave
boys. Get one Of the French gentlemen
to kiss piece of cake at that to do, and
bring It to me. l would like to break a
broomstick over old General WoOls back
or head, ] do not care which. Nasty,
dirty vRgabonds of the North 10 one
verse of Maryland. My Maryland it
says:
| She Is neither dead, nor blind, nor dumb
| Huzzai she snurns the Northern scum.
She breathes, she burns she'll come, she'll
Maryland, my Marylandr
And am just like her. I spurn the
in Clark, and her mother and Cert went
mp there about FIVE or six weeks ago
Miss Jennie is very sick They are
afraid she will never be any better Her
spine is affected.
please don't burst till l see you
again, and then we can burst together,
aud kill some of those vile hordss of
Yankee invaders. We have some splen
did bands Of Yankee music here, and
whenever / hear the Dead March play
ing, run to hear H., as If l never ex
pected TO hear any more music in my
life There Is one, two or three funerals
among the soldiers most every day We
don't call them Yankees, we say, There
goes a man In soldiers clothes, We call
the stars ana stripes that hateful old
grdiron, aud everything else we can to
make them msd, but they have got so
used to being held in contempt that they
hardly expect anything else.
Old Lewis Mckenzie is mayor of
Alexandria-elec by the Yankees
The Union men, as well as the Yankees.
are frightened half to death. General
Banks has been beaten by General Jack
son all to pieces, and they are afraid our
soldiers will be in Washington by to-
night, and with only 1000 men from
Mcdowell (who is at fredericksburg TO
protect tue Capitol. wish our soldiers
would find it out, and sweep Mcdowell
and his whole army of the face Of the
aarfh am vary Glad 81 haar thot NJ