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There were five or six women leaning over a balcony on one occasion when I was riding along quite near it, with one officer only between me and the balcony.
I was face to the front, and of course people turned out to see me more or less as I went through the streets.
Just as we were passing the balcony, with something between a shriek and a sneer, the women all whirled around back to with a flirt which threw out their skirts in a regular circle like the pirouette of a dancer.
I turned.
around to my aid, saying in full
voice: “Those women evidently know which end of them looks the best.”
That closed that exhibition.
The question pressed upon me: How is this course of conduct to be changed?
How is this to be stopped?
We have a very few troops in the midst of a hostile population of many thousands, including more than twice our number of paroled Confederate soldiers.
Many of these women who do this are young, and many are
A. M. Thayer and Co. 1892.
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