From the Richmond Examiner, Monday, 7/29/1861, p. 3
SOUTHERN WOMEN WITH NORTHERN SYMPATHIES - Two ladies,
mother and daughter, living on Church Hill, have lately attracted public notice
by their assiduous attentions to the Yankee prisoners confined in this city.
Whilst every true woman in this community has been busy making articles of
comfort or necessity for our troops, or administering to the wants of the many
hundreds of sick, who, far from their homes, which they left to defend our soil,
are fit subjects for our sympathy, these two women have been expending their
opulent means in aiding and giving comfort to the miscreants who have invaded
our sacred soil, bent on rapine and murder, the desolation of our homes and
sacred places, and the ruin and dishonour of our families.
Out upon all pretexts of humanity! The largest human
charity can find ample scope in kindness and attention to our own poor fellows
who have been stricken down while battling for our country and our rights. The
Yankee wounded have been put under charge of competent surgeons and provided
with good nurses. This is more than they deserve and have any right to expect,
and the course of these two females, in providing them with delicacies, buying
them books, stationery and papers, cannot but be regarded as an evidence of
sympathy amounting to an endorsation of the cause and conduct of these Northern
Vandals.
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