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Fort Pillow (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
y could get no other terms, withdrew, vexed and mortified at their failure. Mrs. Booth, the widow of Major Booth, who fell contending against fearful odds at Fort Pillow, at the time of the bloody massacre, a few weeks after presented the blood-stained flag of the fort which had been saved by one of the few survivors, to the remry, with these thrilling words, Boys, I have just come from a visit to the hospital at Mound City. There I saw your comrades, wounded at the bloody struggle in Fort Pillow. There I found the flag-you recognize it! One of your comrades saved it from the insulting touch of traitors. I have given to my country all I had to give-my country. Next to my husband's cold remains, the dearest object left to me in the world, is that flag — the flag that waved in proud defiance over the works of Fort Pillow! Soldiers! this flag I give to you, knowing that you will ever remember the last words of my noble husband, never surrender the flag to traitors! Colonel Ja
Tennessee (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
en through the treachery of Isham Harris and his co-conspirators, Tennessee was dragged out of the Union, and the secessionists demanded thaton, And left the old flag floating free O'er the bravest heart in Tennessee, To wave in loyal splendor there Upon that treason-tainted air, eer, boys, cheer!-give three times three For the bravest woman in Tennessee!” Other defenders of the flag. Mrs. Effie Titlow epared at once to follow him to the field. During the march into Tennessee in the spring of 1862, Colonel Turchin was taken seriously ill, amalignity of some of the rebel women heroism of loyal women in East Tennessee, Northern Georgia and Alabama We have already had occasion tel garrisons and outposts, on the borders of North Carolina and East Tennessee, at the risk of her liberty and life, solely from her devotion to the national cause. The mountainous regions of East Tennessee, Northern Alabama and Northern Georgia were the home of many of these loyal
Belle Isle, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
who for their fidelity to principle, their patient endurance of proscription and their humanity and helpfulness to Union men, and especially Union prisoners, are deserving of all honor. The loyal women of Richmond were a noble band. Amid obloquy, persecution and in some cases imprisonment (one of them was imprisoned for nine months for aiding Union prisoners) they never faltered in their allegiance to the old flag, nor in their sympathy and services to the Union prisoners at Libby and Belle Isle, and Castle Thunder. With the aid of twenty-one loyal white men in Richmond they raised a fund of thirteen thousand dollars in gold, to aid Union prisoners, while their gifts of clothing, food and luxuries, were of much greater value. Some of these ladies were treated with great cruelty by the rebels, and finally driven from the city, but no one of them ever proved false to loyalty. In Charleston, too, hot-bed of the rebellion as it was, there was a Union league, of which the larger pro
Winchester, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
famished rebel horde, On that pleasant morn of the early fall When Lee marched over the mountain-wall-- Over the mountains winding down, Horse and foot, into Frederick town. Forty flags with their silver stars, Forty flags with their crimson bars, Flapped in the morning wind: the sun Of noon looked down, and saw not one. Up rose old Barbara Frietchie then, Bowed with her fourscore years and ten; Bravest of all in Frederick town, She took up the flag the men hauled down; In her attic-window the staff she set, To show that one heart was loyal yet, Up the street came the rebel tread, Stonewall Jackson riding ahead. Under his slouched hat left and right He gle, Flag of Freedom and Union, wave Peace and order and beauty draw Round thy symbol of light and law; And ever the stars above look down On thy stars below in Frederick town Mrs. Hettie M. McEwen. Of revolutionary lineage her devotion to the Union her defiance of Isham Harris' efforts to have the Union flag lowered
Oak Ridge (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
onorable record, for their faithfulness to the flag, their generosity and their devotion to the wounded. Chief among these, since she gave her life for the cause, we must reckon Mrs. Jennie Wade. Her house was situated in the valley between Oak Ridge and Seminary Hill, and was directly in range of the guns of both armies. But Mrs. Wade was intensely patriotic and loyal, and on the morning of the third day of the battle, that terrible Friday, July 3, she volunteered to bake bread for the Und, and finding Mrs. Wade dead, placed her in the coffin intended for the rebel officer. In that coffin she was buried the next day amidst the tears of hundreds who knew her courage and kindness of heart. Miss Carrie Sheads, the principal of Oak Ridge Female Seminary, is also deserving of a place in our record for her courage, humanity and true womanly tact. The Seminary buildings were within a few hundred yards of the original battle-field of the first day's fight, and in the course of the
Jackson (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
Part 1. Ladies distinguished for services among the freedmen and refugees. Barbara Frietchie. Her age her patriotism Whittier's poem Barbara Frietchie was an aged lady of Frederick, Maryland, of German birth, but intensely patriotic. In September, 1862, when Lee's army were on their way to Antietam, Stonewall Jackson's corps passed through Frederick, and the inhabitants, though a majority of them were loyal, resolved not to provoke the rebels unnecessarily, knowing that they could make no effectual resistance to such a large force, and accordingly took down their flags; but Dame Barbara though nearly eighty years of age could not brook that the flag of the Union should be humbled before the rebel ensign, and from her upper window waved her flag, the only one visible that day in Frederick. Whittier has told the whole story so admirably that we cannot do better than to transfer his exquisite poem to our pages. Dame Barbara died in 1865. Barbara Frietchie. Up
Maryland (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
ars of age could not brook that the flag of the Union should be humbled before the rebel ensign, and from her upper window waved her flag, the only one visible that day in Frederick. Whittier has told the whole story so admirably that we cannot do better than to transfer his exquisite poem to our pages. Dame Barbara died in 1865. Barbara Frietchie. Up from the meadows rich with corn, Clear in the cool September morn, The clustered spires of Frederick stand, Green-walled by the hills of Maryland. Round about them orchards sweep, Apple and peach trees fruited deep, Fair as a garden of the Lord To the eyes of the famished rebel horde, On that pleasant morn of the early fall When Lee marched over the mountain-wall-- Over the mountains winding down, Horse and foot, into Frederick town. Forty flags with their silver stars, Forty flags with their crimson bars, Flapped in the morning wind: the sun Of noon looked down, and saw not one. Up rose old Barbara Frietchie then, Bowed with her fo
Fortress Monroe (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
y A. Jones.By Horatio G. Jones, Esq. Miss Jones' birth and lineage she aids in equipping the companies of Union soldiers organized in her own neighborhood her services in the Filbert Street Hospital death of her brother visit to Fortress Monroe she determines to go to the front and attaches herself to the Third Division, Second Corps, Hospital at City Point has an attack of pleurisy on her recovery resumes her labors is again attacked and dies on the 21st of December, 1864 herl-doing. Her services at the hospital were constant and efficient, and when she heard of any sick soldier in her village she would visit him there and procure medicine and comforts for him. In the fall of 1864 she accompanied a friend to Fortress Monroe to meet his sick and wounded son, and thus was led to see more of the sufferings of our brave patriots. On returning home she expressed a wish to go to the front, and although dissuaded on account of her delicate health, she felt it to be h
Alabama (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
e of the most prominent loyal women of the mountainous districts of the south their ready aid to our escaping prisoners Miss Melvina Stevens malignity of some of the rebel women heroism of loyal women in East Tennessee, Northern Georgia and Alabama We have already had occasion to mention some of those whose labors had been conspicuous, and especially Mrs. Sarah R. Johnson, Mrs. Nellie M. Taylor, Mrs. Grier, Mrs. Clapp, Miss Breckinridge, Mrs. Phelps, Mrs. Shepard Wells, and others. Thest the most dangerous of. the rebel garrisons and outposts, on the borders of North Carolina and East Tennessee, at the risk of her liberty and life, solely from her devotion to the national cause. The mountainous regions of East Tennessee, Northern Alabama and Northern Georgia were the home of many of these loyal and energetic Union women-women, who in the face of privation, persecution, death and sometimes outrages worse than death, kept up the courage and patriotic ardor of their husbands, b
Georgia (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
the names of some of the most prominent loyal women of the mountainous districts of the south their ready aid to our escaping prisoners Miss Melvina Stevens malignity of some of the rebel women heroism of loyal women in East Tennessee, Northern Georgia and Alabama We have already had occasion to mention some of those whose labors had been conspicuous, and especially Mrs. Sarah R. Johnson, Mrs. Nellie M. Taylor, Mrs. Grier, Mrs. Clapp, Miss Breckinridge, Mrs. Phelps, Mrs. Shepard Wells, of. the rebel garrisons and outposts, on the borders of North Carolina and East Tennessee, at the risk of her liberty and life, solely from her devotion to the national cause. The mountainous regions of East Tennessee, Northern Alabama and Northern Georgia were the home of many of these loyal and energetic Union women-women, who in the face of privation, persecution, death and sometimes outrages worse than death, kept up the courage and patriotic ardor of their husbands, brothers and lovers, a
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