“LETTER FROM THE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH.

TO THE

SOLDIERS OF THE CONFEDERATE ARMY.

‘SOLDIERS: The President, Congress, the public press and your Generals have told you their high estimate of your noble devotion in re-enlisting for the war. We, also, as your mothers, wives, daughters, sisters and friends, claim the right to thank you. It is the grandest act of the revolution, and secures immortality to all concerned in it. It awakens anew the enthusiasm with which we began this struggle for liberty, and removes all doubt of its eventual success. Such men, in such a cause, cannot be overcome. In the dreariness of camp life you may sometimes have imagined yourselves forgotten or little cared for. Counting up your privations and danger, you may have doubted their full appreciation, and fancied that those who stay at home and risk nothing, while you suffer and bleed, are more esteemed than yourselves. We beseech you harbor no such thought. You are constantly present to our minds. The women of the South bestow all their respect and affection on the heroes who defend them against a barbarous and cruel foe. In their resolution they are as firm and determined as you in yours not to lay down your arms ’till independence be won. When that sacred vow shall have been accomplished your reception by us will more than attest our sincerity. It shall also be shown, while the contest goes on, by our efforts to increase your comforts in the field and to lighten the burdens of the ones left at home. For your stricken country’s sake and ours, be true to yourselves and our glorious cause. Never turn your backs on the flag, nor desert the ranks of honor or the post of danger. Men guilty of such infamy would sell your blood and our honor, and give up the Confederacy to its wicked invaders. In after years, from generation to generation, the black title of tory and deserter will cling to them, disgracing their children’s children. But no stigma like this will stain you and yours. Brave, patriotic and self-sacrificing in time of war, you will be honored in peace as the saviors of your country, and the pride and glory of your country-women. We beg you to keep near your hearts these memorials of affection and respect, and to remember them especially in battle, and we invoke for you always the protection of a kind and merciful Providence.’

Mrs. S. C. Law,
Mrs. L. E. Cairns,
Mrs. Julia Brice,
Mrs. B. Gordon,
Mrs. Rosa Aubrey,
Mrs. M. A. Flournoy,
Mrs. Robert Hardaway,
Mrs. Virginia Sneed,
Mrs. Patton,
Mrs. C. Shorter,
Mrs. E. R. Hodges,
Mrs. James Warren,
Mrs. Seaborn Jones,
Mrs. T. Threewitts,
Mrs. P. H. Colquitt,
Mrs. Jas. A. Shorter,
Mrs. Shaaf,
Mrs. Wm. Woolfolk,
Mrs. Fergusson,
Mrs. Buckley,
Mrs. E. Shepherd,
Mrs. A. O. Flewellen,
Mrs. Rogers,
Mrs. A. B. Longstreet,
Mrs. H. Meigs.
Mrs. John Banks,
Mrs. D. Moffett,
Mrs. J. E. Hurt,
Mrs. Augusta Erskine,

Mrs. Goetchius,

Mrs. L Illgos,
Mrs. T. M. Nelson,
Mrs. A. Shepherd,
Mrs. Dexter,
Mrs. C. Walker,
Mrs. H. L, Benning,
Mrs. M. Chambers,
Mrs. S. C. Tarpley,
Mrs. Anne Dawson,
Mrs. J. Dawson,
Mrs. M. E. Shorter,
Miss L. Rutherford,
Miss E. Munnerlyn,
Miss S. Threewitts,
Miss Anna Bennett,
Miss Rogers,
Miss Lou Hurt,
Miss Tarpley,
Miss M. T. Shorter,
Miss Lila Howard,
Miss Torrance,
Miss Buckley,
Miss Anna Leonard,
Misses Ellington,
Misses Shepherd,
Misses Benning,
Misses Malone,
Misses Abercrombie,
Misses Hardaway,
Mrs. I. M. Gale,’
Mrs. R. Patton,
Mrs. Geo. Woodruff,
Mrs. R. Ware,