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The Daily Dispatch: July 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 14 (search)
you could sing that to us as we go on to battle, there is not a man who would not only cut his way-through the Yankees, but would eat them, too!" But, seriously speaking, it is the most inspiring thing imaginable to see the determined front presented by our men, one and all, and to witness the unquenchable hatred of the North, and the burning desire to avenge the wrongs of the South, which has become a fixed principle with them. We hear sometimes a sign, and see a tearful eye, as the thought of home and loved ones rises before them; but there is a manful putting aside of private griefs, and a steady resolve to do or die, which makes the sympathetic blood course in our veins and causes us to realize more than ever before what we women of Virginia owe to these men whose lives are imperilled in our defence, and in whom, next to God and our glorious commanders, Davis, Lee, Beauregard and Johnston, we trust to restore to us the homes from which we have been forced to fly. Exile.