SPIRIT OF THE WOMEN OF VIRGINIA.–

15. August 2008 by admin.

A lady of Clarke County, Virginia, whose husband had been during two years in Yankee prisons, and in exile from his home, and whose son (an only child, in his 18th year) was then in some Northern Bastille, as a prisoner of war, wrote to her husband as follows: “If it were possible, I should like you to be at home; but I do not want you or O, ever to give up the struggle for liberty and our rights. If your salary fails to pay you board, go at something else for the Confederacy; I will try and contrive a way to clothe you. I would love to be with you; but do not expect it now, in these times. I wish O, was at home–I mean in his company; but I would rather he would be held a prisoner for the war, than have him at home dodging his duty, as some do. I am proud to think every man in my little family is in the army. If I have but two, they are at their post of duty.”

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