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The Daily Dispatch: July 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], Tomes of respect. (search)
"We wait to welcome thee Home." --Such is the motto inscribed by the ladies of Roanoke county on a beautiful blue silk flag, now being fabricated here for them, by Mc. Geo. Ruskell, and which they intend to present to the Salem Flying Artillery. Surely the men could not get along without the sustaining presence, aid and co-operation of such invaluable adjuncts as women, and just as certainly "none but the brave deserve the fair."While nobly sending forth brothers, sons and husbands, with words of cheer, they bid them do their duty, saying "return with your shield or on it." "We wait to welcome thee home."In passing through the establishment of Mr. Ruskell, yesterday morning, we saw another evidence of the devotion of the fair sex. in a splendid flag which the ladies of Hanover were having made for Captain Newton's gallant boys. It will be remembered that they lost two of their men in the battle last Sunday. This flag has the Virginia coat of arms on one side, and on the obvers