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The Daily Dispatch: December 15, 1863., [Electronic resource], A Yankee opinion of their friends in East Tennessee. (search)
A Yankee opinion of their friends in East Tennessee. --Among the letters captured by our forces while around Knoxville was one from D. G. Griffin to his father in New York. The opinion expressed must be very flattering to the Unionists of East Tennessee: Our Union friends have fanaticism and enthusiasm enough, but they are so ignorant and ill-bred as to disgust any gentleman. The women know how to make "corn dodgers" and dirty little Federal flags, "ginger cakes and the like," and to curse and point out their superiors — rebel ladies and rebel gentlemen — and that is about all. The rebel ladies are intelligent, well bred, and good looking — dignified and bold in their demeanor. But they won't talk to us — consider themselves our superiors, simply from the fact that we are fighting for their inferiors, the Union ladies.--They are not to blame. I often blush when I think of the common herd that I am periling my life for. God save me from such ignorant trash. Yo