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Atlanta Daily Intelligencer

DAILY INTELLIGENCER, [ATLANTA, GA], October 11, 1863, p. 2, c. 3

A Tribute to the Ladies of Georgia.

                                                                               
                                 Quintard Hospital,
                                                                               
                                 Griffin, Oct. 9, 1863.
    At the earnest solicitation of the patients, in this hospital, I request a 
place in your columns to give some public expression of our gratitude for the 
kind attention we have receive from some of the ladies of this city.  When the 
first notes of preparation for war were sounded, we left all and joined the 
army as volunteers.  We have passed through many scenes of trial and 
suffering, of danger and death from Springfield to Gettysburg.  We have 
regarded it a patriotic duty to fight for the rights and liberties of the 
sunny South, and against the aggressions of our barbarous foes.  Some sick and 
some wounded on the bloody field of Chickamauga, we are consigned to the 
hospital.  In suffering and pain, and at the same time far from home and all 
its endearments--from those loved voices that were wont to greet us there, we 
are prepared to appreciate the kindness of woman.--It is true that the 
physicians in attendance and the managers of the hospital are unusually 
attentive and prompt in the discharge of their duties.  But the ladies of the 
place show an interest in the welfare of the soldier surpassing anything of 
the kind we have hitherto experienced in the Confederacy.  They not only cheer 
us by their presence and encourage us by their words, thus reminding us of the 
loved ones at home, but they prepare for the more feeble among us those 
comforts in the way of food that the commissary cannot furnish.  Even articles 
of clothing have been procured for those who needed them, and some able to 
read have been furnished with good books to while away the tedious hours of 
convalescence.--In the name of the sick and wounded soldiers, who with tears 
have desired me to do so, I return their thanks to these ladies for their 
considerate kindness and attention.--As I write without their knowledge or 
desire, I trust they will pardon me for mentioning some of their names.  We 
will always remember with gratitude these persons:  Mrs. Morrow, Miss Julia 
Morrow, Miss Lizzie Morrow, Mrs. Haire, Mrs. F. M. Ison, Mrs. M. M. Ison, Mrs. 
E. McLaurin, Hon. Mrs. Eason, Mrs. Worhty, Miss Jeanie Goodrum, Miss Clara 
Johnson, Miss Clara Fryer, Mrs. R. C. Jones, Mrs. Mollie Nelson, Mrs. J. C. 
King, Miss Lucy King, Miss Sue Daniel, &c.
    Although we have suffered much we feel that we are engaged in a noble 
cause and are proud to fight in defence [sic] of such as have been so kind to 
us.  We doubt not that they will be rewarded by the consciousness of having 
done good and heaven will smile upon their deeds.  When the history of this 
war is written the heroic actions of the women of this Confederacy will be 
brought prominently to view.  They have exemplified the sentiment of Burns, 
where he says:
                   "The brave poor soldier ne'er despise
                                   Nor count him for a stranger
                   Remember he's his country's prize,
                                   In day and hour of danger,
                                                                               
                                                 Bunk.



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