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Thomas C. DeLeon, Four years in Rebel capitals: an inside view of life in the southern confederacy, from birth to death. 2 0 Browse Search
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Thomas C. DeLeon, Four years in Rebel capitals: an inside view of life in the southern confederacy, from birth to death., Chapter 20: from Shiloh to New Orleans. (search)
Brutality fulminated that bull, which extorted even from the calm and imperturbable British Premier the exclamation--Infamous! The intended insult fell dead before the purity of southern womanhood; but the malignancy that prompted it seared deep into their hearts. Though their defenders were away, the women of New Orleans rose in their majesty of sex; and, clothed on with chastity, defied the oppressor and called on manhood everywhere to judge between him and them. As , When the face of Sextus was seen amid the foes in those earlier days when Roman womanhood was roused to defy that elder traducer- No women on the housetops But spat toward him and hiss'd; No child but scream'd out curses And shook its little fist! And the cry echoed in the hearts of the Louisianians in the battle's front. It mattered not so much to them if the defenses had been neglected; if the proper precautions had not been taken, and their firesides and families sacrificed, while they were battling so nob