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George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 3: through Harper's Ferry to Winchester—The Valley of the Shenandoah. (search)
nished wonderful consolation to a good woman, who hurled it at me because I gave her no encouragement for her losses. We found the women here much more violent than the men, but perhaps this was only from the female habit of not suppressing their feelings. The women took a malicious pleasure in expressing to our officers their sentiments of hatred to your president and to your government; and no amount of swearing induced them to believe in our recent victories at Henry, Mill Springs, and Donelson. We found some difficulty, too, in trading with our treasury notes, especially with the lower classes; but when they found it was that or nothing, they took them eagerly. The thin, flimsy-looking currency, issued by the Confederate States, as well as by their municipal corporations, was exchanged among their own people with confidence in its value, although I observed that the knowing ones used it to buy lands of the foolish. Many of the Second Regiment can recall the guard duty, on pi