Daily Ohio statesman, (Columbus, OH) April 05, 1862 -
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Gifts of Yankee Lasses.
Our brave
western boys have won the hearts of the Yankee girls as well as victories over
the rebels, and the St. Louis Democrat thus speaks of the cheering gifts “for
the braves;”
We have in
our office, a contribution to the Sanitary Commission’s relief stores, which is
a curiosity worth inspecting. It was sent here with other articles by ladies of
Massachusetts, though from what precise Yankee town or village of the Bay
State, we do not know. First, a pair of soft wool hose, in top of each of which
is knit the flag of the Union, with its thirteen stripes, and blue field and
the stars, and the flag extending down nearly to the ankle. Attached to the hose
is a slip inscribed thus:
“When
hearts are true and fingers warm
Who can
resist our Yankee Boys?
Not any
base and rebel swain,
That
Freedom’s noble work destroys
When women
knit and Yankees fight,
Who doubts
the triumph of the right!”
The other,
a flannel shirt, eagle gray, of fine soft, but substantial fabric, on the body
of which is wrought with the needle, the following stanzas:
Soldier
brave, will it brighten the day,
And shorten
the march on the weary way,
To know
that at home, the loving and true,
Are
knitting, and hoping and praying for you?
Soft are
their voices, when speaking your name,
Proud are
their glories when hearing your fame,
And the
gladdest hour in their lives will be
When they
greet you after the victory.
C.S.M
The
workmanship is neat, but the address’ “For
the bravest,” might be, if such a thing could occasion contention among men
who are not only brave but generous, a source of strife for the title of it,
like the mythologic apple of discord.
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